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抽烟

chōu yān

HSK 4 2-character word Traditional 抽菸

What 抽烟 means

1. to smoke (tobacco)

Other readings

抽烟 is 多音字 — it is read more than one way, and the reading changes the meaning.

• chōu yānvariant of {抽烟|chōu yān}

The characters in 抽烟

• 抽chōuto draw out; to pull out from in between; to remove part of the whole…
• 烟yāncigarette or pipe tobacco; smoke; mist

Example sentences

• 请抽烟!
  Please smoke!
• 我不抽烟。
  I don't smoke.
• 她在抽烟。
  She's smoking.
• 你抽不抽烟？
  Do you smoke?
• 你应该少抽烟。
  You should smoke less.
• 她停下来抽烟。
  She quit smoking.

Where 抽烟 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of Health & body (HSK 4), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 4 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read chōu yān correctly.
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