烟 — Chinese character
烟
yān
smoke, soot; opium; tobacco, cigarettes
- Pinyin
- yān
- Radical
- 86 ⽕ (Fire)
- Strokes
- 10
- Components
- 火 因
- Formation
- pictophonetic — fire; meaning component 火; sound component 因
- Traditional
- 煙
- Japanese
- 烟 as a kanji
Common words with 烟
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 烟草 (煙草) | yān cǎo | tobacco |
| 香烟 (香煙) | xiāng yān | smoke from incense (burned as an offering to one's ancestors); (fig.) continuation of family line; cigarette (CL:支 (zhī),条 (tiáo),根 (gēn),包 (bāo),盒 (hé)) |
| 香烟 (香菸) | xiāng yān | cigarette (CL:支 (zhī),条 (tiáo),根 (gēn),包 (bāo),盒 (hé)) (variant of 香烟 (xiāng yān)) |
| 抽烟 (抽煙) | chōu yān | variant of 抽烟 (chōu yān) |
| 抽烟 (抽菸) | chōu yān | to smoke (tobacco) |
| 吸烟 (吸煙) | xī yān | to smoke |
| 烟雾 (煙霧) | yān wù | smoke; mist |
| 烟火 (煙火) | yān huǒ | smoke and fire; cooked food |
| 烟火 (煙火) | yān huo | fireworks |
| 戒烟 (戒煙) | jiè yān | to give up smoking |
| 烟花 (煙花) | yān huā | fireworks; prostitute (esp. in Yuan theater) |
| 烟囱 (煙囪) | yān cōng | chimney; smokestack; stovepipe |
English words written with 烟
Data: Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.