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烟

yān

HSK 4 Character Traditional 煙 Measure word 根、缕

What 烟 means

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

Other readings

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

• yāntobacco (variant of {烟|yān})

Example sentences

• 戒烟难。
  It is difficult to give up smoking.
• 请抽烟!
  Please smoke!
• 你吸烟吗?
  Do you smoke?
• 戒烟很难。
  It is difficult to give up smoking.
• 严禁吸烟。
  Smoking is strictly prohibited.
• 我不抽烟。
  I don't smoke.

Words starting with 烟

• 烟花yān huāfireworks; prostitute (esp. in Yuan theater)
• 烟雾yān wùsmoke; mist; vapor
• 烟头yān tóucigarette butt; fag-end
• 烟草yān cǎotobacco
• 烟囱yān cōngchimney; smokestack; stovepipe
• 烟火yān huǒsmoke and fire; cooked food; (literary) beacon fire
• 烟消云散yān xiāo yún sàn(idiom) to vanish like smoke in thin air; to disappear
• 烟斗yān dǒu(smoking) pipe
• 烟酒yān jiǔtobacco and alcohol
• 烟雨yān yǔmisty rain; drizzle
• 烟灰缸yān huī gāngashtray
• 烟灰yān huīcigarette ash
• 烟尘yān chénsmoke and dust; air pollution
• 烟圈yān quānsmoke ring
• 烟叶yān yèleaf tobacco
• 烟台市Yān tái ShìYantai, prefecture-level city in Shandong Province 山东省
• 烟蒂yān dìcigarette butt
• 烟熏yān xūnsmoke; to fumigate
• 烟袋yān dàitobacco pipe
• 烟瘾yān yǐnthe urge to smoke; tobacco addiction
• 烟气yān qìsmoke
• 烟卷yān juǎncigarette; cigar
• 烟丝yān sīloose tobacco; fine-cut tobacco; (literary) wisp of smoke; thin strand of smoke
• 烟民yān mínsmoker; tobacco user

Words containing 烟

• 抽烟chōu yānto smoke (tobacco)
• 戒烟jiè yānto give up smoking
• 香烟xiāng yānsmoke from incense (burned as an offering to one's ancestors)…
• 吸烟xī yānto smoke
• 硝烟xiāo yānsmoke (from guns)
• 浓烟nóng yānthick smoke
• 一溜烟yī liù yānlike a wisp of smoke; (to disappear etc) in an instant
• 冒烟mào yānto discharge smoke; to fume with rage
• 炊烟chuī yānsmoke from kitchen chimneys
• 人烟rén yānsign of human habitation
• 大烟dà yānopium
• 点烟diǎn yānto light a cigarette
• 卷烟juǎn yāncigarette; cigar
• 灰飞烟灭huī fēi yān mièlit. scattered ashes and dispersed smoke (idiom); fig. to be annihilated…
• 乌烟瘴气wū yān zhàng qìbillowing smoke (idiom); foul atmosphere; (fig.) murky atmosphere
• 过眼云烟guò yǎn yún yānephemeral (idiom)
• 云烟yún yānmist; clouds; smoke
• 禁烟jìn yānto ban smoking; to quit smoking; to prohibit cooking
• 纸烟zhǐ yāncigarette
• 无烟wú yānnonsmoking (e.g. environment)
• 旱烟hàn yāntobacco (smoked in a long-stemmed pipe)
• 倒烟dào yānto have smoke billowing from a fireplace or stove (due to a blockage in the chimney)
• 吃烟chī yān(dialect) to smoke (tobacco)
• 排烟pái yānto discharge smoke

Characters built on 因

These share the phonetic component 因 (yīn), which is why their readings rhyme. Learning them as a family is far cheaper than learning them one at a time.

• 咽yànto swallow
• 胭yānrouge

Characters that look like 烟

Easy to confuse on sight. Compare them side by side once and the pair stops costing you.

• 烦fánto feel vexed; to bother; to trouble
• 姻yīnmarriage connections
• 掘juéto dig
• 悯mǐnto sympathize; to pity; to feel compassion for; (literary) to feel sorrow; to be grieved
• 胴dònglarge intestine; torso
• 掴guāito slap; also pr. guó

Sounds the same

Read yān, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 淹to flood; to submerge; to drown
• 焉where; how
• 殷dark red
• 阉to castrate; a castrate; neuter
• 嫣(literary) lovely; sweet
• 腌to salt; to pickle; to cure (meat)
• 咽throat; pharynx; narrow pass
• 湮(literary) to sink into oblivion; (literary) to silt up; Taiwan pr. yīn
• 胭rouge
• 啱correct; suitable; to suit sb
• 鄢used in 鄢陵
• 恹used in 恹恹