Chinese symbol for “ashtray”
烟灰缸
yān huī gāng
Traditional: 煙灰缸
ashtray
The closest CC-CEDICT match for ashtray is 烟灰缸 (yān huī gāng), defined as: ashtray.
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Other Chinese words for “ashtray”
Related words
Other words that share a character with 烟灰缸.
| 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 |
| 抽烟 (抽煙) | chōu yān | variant of 抽烟 (chōu yān) |
| 吸烟 (吸煙) | xī yān | to smoke |
| 灰色 | huī sè | gray; ash gray |
| 灰尘 (灰塵) | huī chén | dust |
| 骨灰 | gǔ huī | bone ash; cremation ashes; cremains |
| 灰烬 (灰燼) | huī jìn | ashes |
| 浴缸 | yù gāng | bathtub |
See also: Japanese symbol for “ashtray”.
Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.