yān

smoke, soot; opium; tobacco, cigarettes

HSK 4 #967

DEFINITIONS

烟 yān
  • 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

STROKES

WORDS

叶 yān yè leaf tobacco
蒂 yān dì cigarette butt
jìn yān to ban smoking; to quit smoking; to prohibit cooking; prohibition on opium (esp. in China from 1729)
荒无人 huāng wú rén yān desolate and uninhabited (idiom)
瘾 yān yǐn the urge to smoke; tobacco addiction
dà yān opium
幕 yān mù smokescreen; fig. a diversion
尘 yān chén smoke and dust; air pollution
卷 yān juàn cigarette; cigar
xiāo yān smoke (from guns)
juǎn yān cigarette; cigar
民 yān mín smokers
雪茄 xuě jiā yān cigar
rén yān sign of human habitation
幕弹 yān mù dàn smoke bomb
yún yān mist; smoke; cloud
shuǐ yān shredded tobacco for water pipes
yóu yān soot; lampblack
煤 wú yān méi anthracite
fēng yān fire beacon (used as alarm signal over long distance)
wú yān nonsmoking (e.g. environment)
过眼云 guò yǎn yān yún ephemeral (idiom)
bí yān snuff
七窍生 qī qiào shēng yān lit. spouting smoke through the seven orifices (idiom); fig. to seethe with anger
稀少 rén yān xī shǎo no sign of human habitation (idiom); desolate