烟
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cigarette or pipe tobacco; CL:根[gen1]; smoke; mist; vapour; CL:縷|缕[lu:3]; tobacco plant; (of the eyes) to be irritated by smoke
- HSK 3.0
- Level 3
- Old HSK
- Level 4
- Strokes
- 10
- Radical
- 火 +6
- Structure
- Left–right 左右
- Traditional
- 烟
- Common rank
- #442
- Unicode
- U+70DF
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Formation & memory
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Words with 烟
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| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 烟花市 | (old) red-light district; brothel | |
| 电子烟 | e-cigarette; vape | |
| 不食人间烟火 | otherworldly; detached from the mundane concerns of ordinary life | |
| 烟台市 | Yantai, prefecture-level city in Shandong Province 山東省|山东省[Shan1 dong1 Sheng3] | |
| 烟花风月 | refers to lovemaking (idiom) | |
| 烟火气 | cooking smells; (fig.) lively atmosphere | |
| 水烟管 | bong; water pipe (for tobacco etc); hookah | |
| 二手烟 | second-hand smoke | |
| 点烟器 | cigarette lighter (in a car); 12-volt cigarette lighter receptacle | |
| 烟花场 | brothel (esp. in Yuan theater) | |
| 烟管面 | elbow pasta | |
| 烟花行院 | brothel (esp. in Yuan theater) | |
| 人烟 | sign of human habitation | |
| 大烟 | opium | |
| 烟花女 | prostitute (esp. in Yuan theater) | |
| 水烟 | shredded tobacco for water pipes | |
| 烟头 | variant of 菸頭|烟头[yan1 tou2] | |
| 烟头 | cigarette butt; CL:根[gen1] | |
| 油烟机 | range hood; exhaust hood | |
| 无烟 | nonsmoking (e.g. environment) |
Sound family
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