How to read the "杳" of 杳如黄鹤?
The Tang Dynasty poet Cui Hao, who has a masterpiece "Yellow Crane Tower",
The people of the past have gone by the Yellow Crane, and the Yellow Crane Tower is empty here.
The yellow crane is gone, and the white clouds are long in the air.
Harukawa calendar Hanyang tree, yerba buena parrot island.
Where is Nippori Pass? The Smoke Wave River is sad.
Later, people used the metaphor of "like a yellow crane" to disappear without a trace or whereabouts are unknown.
According to the Modern Chinese Dictionary, 杳如黄鹤 '杳' is a monosyllabic character pronounced yǎo (third sound).
"杳", the upper "wood" and the lower "day" indicate that the sun is falling under the trees, and the sky is dark.
The original meaning of "杳" is "dim", which is extended from "dim" to "deep, extremely far", and from "extremely far" to "disappearing, disappearing".
