| yǎo | dark and quiet/disappear |
| 杳 | dark and quiet disappear |
| 杳冥 | dim and dusky far and indistinct |
| 杳如黄鹤 | to be gone forever (idiom) |
| 杳无人烟 | dark and uninhabited (idiom); remote and deserted God-forsaken |
| 杳无人迹 | uninhabited; untrodden |
| 杳无踪迹 | to disappear without a trace; to vanish |
| 杳无音信 | without any news for a long time |
| 杳杳 | deep and somber see also 窈窈 |
| 杳渺 | dimly discernible |
| 杳然 | quiet, silent, and lonely see also 窅然 |
| 杳眇 | variant of 杳渺 |
| 杳茫 | distant and out of sight |
| 杳霭 | far and deep |