烟 (煙) yān

1. yān noun smoke
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
   Notes: (Guoyu '煙' n 1; Kroll 2015 '烟' 1a, p. 526; Unihan '煙'; XHZD '烟' 1, p. 861)
2. fú noun soot
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: (Guoyu '煙' n 4; Unihan '煙'; XHZD '烟' 2, p. 861)
3. yān noun haze; mist; vapour
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: (Kroll 2015 '烟' 1, p. 526; XHZD '烟' 3, p. 861)
4. yān verb to permeate
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: (Kroll 2015 '烟' 1b, p. 526; XHZD '烟' 4, p. 861)
5. yān noun ash used for making ink
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: (Guoyu '煙' n 4; Kroll 2015 '烟' 2, p. 526)
6. yān noun tobacco; cigarettes
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
   Notes: Also written 菸 (CC-CEDICT '煙'; Guoyu '煙' n 6; Unihan '煙'; XHZD '烟' 5, p. 861)
7. yān noun opium
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
   Notes: (Guoyu '煙' n 5; Unihan '煙'; XHZD '烟' 7, pp. 861-862)

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• 敬烟(敬煙) to offer a cigarette (to a guest)
• 烟民(煙民) smokers
• 泼烟花(潑煙花) low-class prostitute
• 水烟(水煙) shredded tobacco for water pipes
• 吸烟(吸煙) to smoke
• 乌烟瘴气(烏煙瘴氣) billowing smoke; foul atmosphere; murky atmosphere; in a turmoil
• 依依墟里烟(依依墟里煙) steady the smoke of the half-deserted village
• 雪茄烟(雪茄煙) cigar
• 烟岚(煙嵐) mist
• 烟花厂(煙花廠) firework factory
• 烟蒂(煙蒂) cigarette butt
• 过眼云烟(過眼雲煙) ephemeral
• 烟花市(煙花市) red-light district; brothel
• 烟屁股(煙屁股) cigarette butt
• 油烟(油煙) soot; lampblack
• 烟头儿(煙頭兒) cigarette butt
• 烟雨(煙雨) misty rain; drizzle
• 烟斗(煙斗) (smoking) pipe
• 烟花粉黛(煙花粉黛) woman; prostitute; lovemaking; literary or theatrical form in Tang, Song and Yuan
• 被动吸烟(被動吸煙) second-hand smoking; passive smoking
• 烟灰缸(煙灰缸) ashtray
• 烟花阵(煙花陣) brothel (especially in Yuan theater)
• 纸烟(紙煙) cigarette
• 烟尘(煙塵) smoke and dust; air pollution
• 烟土(煙土) raw opium
• 荒无人烟(荒無人煙) desolate and uninhabited
• 烟卷儿(煙捲兒) cigarette
• 饭后一支烟，赛过活神仙(飯後一支煙，賽過活神仙) have a smoke after each meal and you will surpass the immortals
• 深海烟囱(深海煙囪) deep-sea vent; black smoker
• 有烟煤(有煙煤) smokey coal
• 烟雾剂(煙霧劑) aerosol
• 倒烟(倒煙) to have smoke billowing from a fireplace or stove (due to a blockage in the chimney)
• 吃烟(吃煙) to smoke opium
• 烟花行院(煙花行院) brothel (especially in Yuan theater)
• 柳烟花雾(柳煙花霧) willow scent and mist of blossom; scene full of the delights of spring
• 二手烟(二手煙) second-hand smoke
• 人烟(人煙) sign of human habitation
• 烟筒(煙筒) chimney; stovepipe; smokestack
• 吸烟区(吸煙區) smoking area
• 烟柳莺(煙柳鶯) smoky warbler (Phylloscopus fuligiventer)
• 烟灰(煙灰) cigarette ash
• 烟海(煙海) the vast ocean
• 灰飞烟灭(灰飛煙滅) scattered ashes and dispersed smoke; to be annihilated; to vanish in a puff of smoke
• 鼻烟(鼻煙) snuff
• 烟肉(煙肉) bacon; smoked ham
• 烟雾症(煙霧症) moyamoya disease (rare brain disease first diagnosed in Japan)
• 香烟(香煙) cigarette ; smoke from burning incense
• 烤烟(烤煙) flue-cured tobacco
• 渺无人烟(渺無人煙) remote and uninhabited; deserted; God-forsaken
• 烽烟(烽煙) a beacon fire; a fire for signalling

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冒烟

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• 第二回 Chapter 43 Dream of the Red Chamber 紅樓夢 — count: 23
• 第二回 Chapter 57 Dream of the Red Chamber 紅樓夢 — count: 20
• 第二回 Chapter 19 Dream of the Red Chamber 紅樓夢 — count: 17
• 第二回 Chapter 9 Dream of the Red Chamber 紅樓夢 — count: 15
• 第二回 Chapter 90 Dream of the Red Chamber 紅樓夢 — count: 15
• 第七十回 Chapter 70 Journey to the West 西遊記 — count: 13
• 卷一百四十一 志第九十四 樂十六 Volume 141 Treatises 94: Music 16 History of Song 宋史 — count: 12
• 卷一百四十 志第九十三 樂十五 Volume 140 Treatises 93: Music 15 History of Song 宋史 — count: 11
• 第二回 Chapter 95 Dream of the Red Chamber 紅樓夢 — count: 10
• 第二回 Chapter 62 Dream of the Red Chamber 紅樓夢 — count: 9

Collocations

• 火烟 (火煙) 無見火煙 — Art of War 孫子兵法, 孫子兵法 The Art of War by Sunzi — count: 9
• 如火烟 (如火煙) 或如火煙之狀 — Book of Jin 晉書, 卷十二 志第二 天文中 Volume 12 Treatises 2: Astronomy Part Two — count: 7
• 烟云 (煙雲) 飛鳥之歸若煙雲 — Huainanzi 淮南子, 卷九　主術訓 Chapter 9: The Sovereign's Methods — count: 6
• 烟焰 (煙焰) 煙焰已交 — Book of Jin 晉書, 卷八十八 列傳第五十八 孝友 Volume 88 Biographies 58: Filial Piety — count: 5
• 紫烟 (紫煙) 紫煙游 — Book of Jin 晉書, 卷二十二 志第十二 樂上 Volume 22 Treatises 12: Music Part One — count: 5
• 烟霏 (煙霏) 煙霏露結 — Book of Jin 晉書, 卷八十 列傳第五十 王羲之 Volume 80 Biographies 50: Wang Xizhi — count: 4
• 烟炎 (煙炎) 懼煙炎之毀熸 — Book of Later Han 後漢書, 卷六十下 蔡邕列傳 Volume 60b: Biography of Cai Yong — count: 4
• 烟熅 (煙熅) 烟熅於堂 — Records of the Three Kingdoms 三國志, 卷四 魏書四 三少帝紀 Volume 4: Book of Wei 4 - Annals of the three young emperors — count: 4
• 烟煴 (煙煴) 蹈煙煴兮辭天衢 — Book of Jin 晉書, 卷五十一 列傳第二十一 皇甫謐 摯虞 束皙 王接 Volume 51 Biographies 21: Huangfu Mi; Zhi Yu; Shu Xi; Wang Jie — count: 4
• 烟起 (煙起) 沙塵煙起 — Book of Jin 晉書, 卷九十四 列傳第六十四 隱逸 Volume 94 Biographies 64: Hermits and Recluses — count: 3