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)

Contained in

• 烟消云散(煙消雲散) smoke disperses, clouds scatter; to vanish into thin air
• 一溜烟(一溜煙) like a wisp of smoke; (to disappear etc) in an instant
• 烟厂(煙廠) cigarette factory
• 烟花女(煙花女) a prostitute
• 卷烟(卷煙) cigarette; cigar
• 烟柳莺(煙柳鶯) smoky warbler (Phylloscopus fuligiventer)
• 柳烟花雾(柳煙花霧) willow scent and mist of blossom; scene full of the delights of spring
• 烟毒(煙毒) prohibited drugs; drugs
• 烟草(煙草) tobacco
• 烟雾(煙霧) smoke ; mist
• 荒无人烟(荒無人煙) desolate and uninhabited
• 烟卷(煙捲) cigarette
• 烟头(煙頭) cigarette butt; fag-end
• 烟筒(煙筒) chimney; stovepipe; smokestack
• 烟缸(煙缸) ashtray
• 云烟(雲煙) mist; smoke; cloud
• 有烟煤(有煙煤) smokey coal
• 烟酒(煙酒) tobacco and alcohol
• 烟径(煙徑) misty lane
• 香烟(香煙) cigarette ; smoke from burning incense
• 板烟(板煙) plug (of tobacco)
• 冒烟(冒煙) to emit smoke
• 放射性烟羽(放射性煙羽) radiation plume
• 乌烟瘴气(烏煙瘴氣) billowing smoke; foul atmosphere; murky atmosphere; in a turmoil
• 烟熏火燎(煙燻火燎) smoke and baking fire; surrounded by flames and smoke
• 水烟袋(水煙袋) a hookah
• 如堕烟雾(如墮煙霧) as if degenerating into smoke; ignorant and unable to see where things are heading
• 敬烟(敬煙) to offer a cigarette (to a guest)
• 烟火(煙火) smoke and fire; fireworks
• 烤烟(烤煙) flue-cured tobacco
• 无烟(無煙) nonsmoking (e.g. environment)
• 杳无人烟(杳無人煙) dark and uninhabited; remote and deserted; God-forsaken
• 烟头儿(煙頭兒) cigarette butt
• 烟花厂(煙花廠) firework factory
• 烟雾剂(煙霧劑) aerosol
• 烟屁(煙屁) cigarette butt
• 烟管面(煙管麵) elbow pasta
• 烟花粉黛(煙花粉黛) woman; prostitute; lovemaking; literary or theatrical form in Tang, Song and Yuan
• 吸烟室(吸煙室) smoking room
• 浩如烟海(浩如煙海) vast as the open sea
• 烟霾(煙霾) smoke; pollution
• 请勿吸烟(請勿吸煙) No smoking; Please do not smoke
• 吃烟(吃煙) to smoke opium
• 纸烟(紙煙) cigarette
• 狼烟四起(狼煙四起) fire beacons on all sides; enveloped in the flames of war
• 烟酒不沾(煙酒不沾) abstaining from liquor and tobacco
• 抽油烟机(抽油煙機) range hood; kitchen exhaust hood
• 暮烟(暮煙) evening mist
• 人烟稀少(人煙稀少) no sign of human habitation; desolate

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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
• 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