烟

yān · yan

Traditional 煙 / 菸

Meaning

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yān 煙

  1. cigarette or pipe tobacco
  2. CL:根 (gēn)
  3. smoke
  4. mist
  5. vapour
  6. CL:縷 / 缕 (lǚ)
  7. tobacco plant
  8. (of the eyes) to be irritated by smoke

yān 菸

  1. tobacco (variant of 煙 / 烟 (yān))

In a sentence

2 examples
01

烟(yān)从(cóng)烟(yān)囱(cōng)里(lǐ)冒(mào)了(le)出(chū)来(lái)。

The smoke went upward through the chimney.

Tatoeba: Chinese by fucongcong · English by auxitt · CC BY 2.0 FR. Pinyin added or corrected.

02

请(qǐng)你(nǐ)在(zài)进(jìn)入(rù)博(bó)物(wù)馆(guǎn)之(zhī)前(qián)先(xiān)把(bǎ)烟(yān)弄(nòng)熄(xī)。

Please put out your cigarettes before entering the museum.

Tatoeba: Chinese by nickyeow · English by CM · CC BY 2.0 FR. Simplified Chinese conversion; Pinyin added or corrected.

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