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戒烟

jiè yān

HSK 5 2-character word Traditional 戒煙

What 戒烟 means

1. to give up smoking

The characters in 戒烟

• 戒jièto guard against; to exhort; to admonish or warn
• 烟yāncigarette or pipe tobacco; smoke; mist

Example sentences

• 戒烟难。
  It is difficult to give up smoking.
• 戒烟很难。
  It is difficult to give up smoking.
• 你该戒烟。
  You must quit smoking.
• 你应该戒烟。
  You should give up smoking.
• 我无法戒烟。
  I can't give up smoking.
• 你必须戒烟。
  You have to quit smoking.

Where 戒烟 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of Health, Medicine & Wellbeing (HSK 5), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

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