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煙

yān

smoke, soot; opium; tobacco, cigarettes

Strokes
13
Radical
火
HSK
—
Tone
1

Simplified form: 烟

Stroke order

Our word list and example sentences are in simplified characters. Everything below is for 烟, the simplified form of 煙. We do not have a traditional-script corpus to draw the words from, so they are shown as they are written in simplified Chinese.

Example sentences

  • 他们吸烟了。

    Tā men xī yān le

    They smoked.

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  • 我想坐在无烟区。

    Wǒ xiǎng zuò zài wú yān qū

    I would like to sit in the non-smoking section.

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  • 我可以吸烟吗？

    Wǒ kě yǐ xī yān ma

    May I smoke?

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  • 我不抽烟。

    Wǒ bù chōu yān

    I don't smoke.

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Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR), contributed by their community.

Words containing 烟

  • 烟yān 1cigarette or pipe tobacco; smoke; mist; vapour; tobacco plant; (of the eyes) to be irritated by smoke
  • 抽烟chōu yān 1–1 to smoke (a cigarette, tobacco)
  • 吸烟xī yān 1–1 to smoke
  • 戒烟jiè yān 4–1 to give up smoking
  • 烟花yān huā 1–1 fireworks; prostitute (esp. in Yuan theater)
  • 香烟xiāng yān 1–1 cigarette; smoke from burning incense
  • 烟火yān huǒ 1–3 smoke and fire; fireworks
  • 烟囱yān cōng 1–1 chimney