烟 (煙) yān
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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) -
fú
noun
soot
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: (Guoyu '煙' n 4; Unihan '煙'; XHZD '烟' 2, p. 861) -
yān
noun
haze; mist; vapour
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: (Kroll 2015 '烟' 1, p. 526; XHZD '烟' 3, p. 861) -
yān
verb
to permeate
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: (Kroll 2015 '烟' 1b, p. 526; XHZD '烟' 4, p. 861) -
yān
noun
ash used for making ink
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: (Guoyu '煙' n 4; Kroll 2015 '烟' 2, p. 526) -
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) -
yān
noun
opium
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
Notes: (Guoyu '煙' n 5; Unihan '煙'; XHZD '烟' 7, pp. 861-862)
Contained in
- 烟霞(煙霞) haze
- 烟瘾(煙癮) the urge to smoke; tobacco addiction
- 烟消云散(煙消雲散) smoke disperses, clouds scatter; to vanish into thin air
- 烟花簿(煙花簿) catalog of prostitutes (especially in Yuan theater)
- 烽烟(烽煙) a beacon fire; a fire for signalling
- 水烟袋(水煙袋) a hookah
- 烟花厂(煙花廠) firework factory
- 硝烟(硝煙) smoke (from guns)
- 放射性烟羽(放射性煙羽) radiation plume
- 油烟(油煙) soot; lampblack
- 老烟枪(老煙槍) heavy smoker; chain smoker; life-long smoker
- 戒烟 to quit smoking ; to give up smoking
- 无烟(無煙) nonsmoking (e.g. environment)
- 烟卷儿(煙捲兒) cigarette
- 烟雾症(煙霧症) moyamoya disease (rare brain disease first diagnosed in Japan)
- 烟缸(煙缸) ashtray
- 烟霾(煙霾) smoke; pollution
- 烽烟遍地(烽煙遍地) fire beacons on all sides; enveloped in the flames of war
- 烟火(煙火) smoke and fire; fireworks
- 烟鬼(煙鬼) heavy smoker; chain smoker
- 鼻烟(鼻煙) snuff
- 烟灰(煙灰) cigarette ash
- 烟圈(煙圈) smoke ring
- 烟熏火燎(煙燻火燎) smoke and baking fire; surrounded by flames and smoke
- 烟柳莺(煙柳鶯) smoky warbler (Phylloscopus fuligiventer)
- 烟枪(煙槍) opium pipe
- 一阵烟(一陣煙) a whiff of smoke
- 放烟幕弹(放煙幕彈) to spread a smokescreen
- 杳无人烟(杳無人煙) dark and uninhabited; remote and deserted; God-forsaken
- 烟卷(煙捲) cigarette
- 烟熏(煙燻) smoke; to fumigate
- 烟草(煙草) tobacco
- 烟岚(煙嵐) mist
- 烟斗(煙斗) (smoking) pipe
- 依依墟里烟(依依墟里煙) steady the smoke of the half-deserted village
- 荒烟蔓草(荒煙蔓草) abandoned by men and choked with weeds; desolate
- 不食人间烟火(不食人間煙火) not eating the food of common mortals; placing oneself above the common populace
- 烟民(煙民) smokers
- 烟气(煙氣) smoke
- 泼烟花(潑煙花) low-class prostitute
- 烟海(煙海) the vast ocean
- 烟头儿(煙頭兒) cigarette butt
- 烟酒(煙酒) tobacco and alcohol
- 卷烟(卷煙) cigarette; cigar
- 二手烟(二手煙) second-hand smoke
- 香烟(香煙) cigarette ; smoke from burning incense
- 鼻烟盒(鼻煙盒) snuffbox
- 烟幕弹(煙幕彈) smoke bomb
- 过眼云烟(過眼雲煙) ephemeral
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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 90 Dream of the Red Chamber 紅樓夢 — count: 15
- 第二回 Chapter 9 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: 5
- 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
- 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: 4
- 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