烟

Cigarette or pipe tobacco in Chinese: 烟 (yān)

yān

cigarette or pipe tobacco

HSK 3.0 Level 3Traditional: 煙1 example sentence

Definitions

  1. 1cigarette or pipe tobacco
  2. 2smoke
  3. 3mist
  4. 4vapour
  5. 5tobacco plant
  6. 6(of the eyes) to be irritated by smoke

Stroke order

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烟

Zhuyin

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ㄧㄢ

yān

ㄧ/ iㄢ/ an—/ first tone

Simplified & traditional

烟

Simplified

煙

Traditional

Example sentences

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  • 屋子里全是烟，很难受。

    wū zi lǐ quán shì yān， hěn nán shòu。

    The room is full of smoke and it's unpleasant.

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Related words

抽烟

chōu yān

to smoke (a cigarette, tobacco)

戒烟

jiè yān

to give up smoking

吸烟

xī yān

to smoke

烟花

yān huā

fireworks

香烟

xiāng yān

cigarette

烟囱

yān cōng

chimney

烟火

yān huǒ

smoke and fire

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