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Open the tool →杳无人烟 (yǎo wú rén yān) is a Chinese idiom (chengyu) meaning “describing a place that is extremely remote, desolate, and completely uninhabited by people; deserted and isolated”.
杳无人烟 is pronounced yǎo wú rén yān in Mandarin Chinese.
Literally, 杳无人烟 means “no trace of human habitation”. It is used to mean “describing a place that is extremely remote, desolate, and completely uninhabited by people; deserted and isolated”.
僻远无人居住。形容荒凉,偏僻。