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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• 烟卷儿(煙捲兒) cigarette
• 七窍生烟(七竅生煙) spouting smoke through the seven orifices; to seethe with anger
• 轻烟(輕煙) faint smoke
• 无烟(無煙) nonsmoking (e.g. environment)
• 一溜烟(一溜煙) like a wisp of smoke; (to disappear etc) in an instant
• 深海烟囱(深海煙囪) deep-sea vent; black smoker
• 烟花债(煙花債) involved in a love affair
• 烟豆(煙豆) variable glycine (Glycine tabacina)
• 烟筒(煙筒) chimney; stovepipe; smokestack
• 烟民(煙民) smokers
• 烟霭(煙靄) mist and clouds
• 浩如烟海(浩如煙海) vast as the open sea
• 油烟(油煙) soot; lampblack
• 放烟幕弹(放煙幕彈) to spread a smokescreen
• 卷烟(卷煙) cigarette; cigar
• 烟花簿(煙花簿) catalog of prostitutes (especially in Yuan theater)
• 烟屁(煙屁) cigarette butt
• 烟厂(煙廠) cigarette factory
• 吸烟室(吸煙室) smoking room
• 烟斗(煙斗) (smoking) pipe
• 烟腹毛脚燕(煙腹毛腳燕) Asian house martin (Delichon dasypus)
• 烟幕(煙幕) smokescreen; fig. a diversion
• 放射性烟羽(放射性煙羽) radiation plume
• 烟径(煙徑) misty lane
• 烟花巷(煙花巷) red-light district
• 水烟袋(水煙袋) a hookah
• 狼烟四起(狼煙四起) fire beacons on all sides; enveloped in the flames of war
• 烟熏(煙燻) smoke; to fumigate
• 烟酒不沾(煙酒不沾) abstaining from liquor and tobacco
• 烟花行院(煙花行院) brothel (especially in Yuan theater)
• 长烟(長煙) endless mist
• 暮烟(暮煙) evening mist
• 烟花厂(煙花廠) firework factory
• 板烟(板煙) plug (of tobacco)
• 烽烟四起，战火纷飞(烽煙四起，戰火紛飛) fire beacons in all four directions; the confusion of war
• 冒烟(冒煙) to emit smoke
• 烟尘(煙塵) smoke and dust; air pollution
• 荒烟蔓草(荒煙蔓草) abandoned by men and choked with weeds; desolate
• 烟花寨(煙花寨) brothel (especially in Yuan theater)
• 泼烟花(潑煙花) low-class prostitute
• 禁止吸烟(禁止吸煙) No smoking!
• 烟肉(煙肉) bacon; smoked ham
• 烟灰(煙灰) cigarette ash
• 过滤嘴香烟(過濾嘴香煙) filter-tipped cigarette
• 非吸烟(非吸煙) nonsmoking
• 没有人烟(沒有人煙) uninhabited
• 江南烟雨(江南煙雨) Yangtze delta drizzle
• 浓烟(濃煙) thick smoke
• 烟雨(煙雨) misty rain; drizzle
• 烟草(煙草) tobacco

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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
• 卷三十一 Scroll 31 Wenxuan 文選 — 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
• 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
• 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
• 举烟 (舉煙) 令百姓有怨者舉煙於城北 — Book of Jin 晉書, 卷一百一十四 載記第十四 苻堅下 Volume 114 Records 14: Fu Jian Part Two — count: 3