Chinese symbol for “smokescreen”
烟幕
yān mù
Traditional: 煙幕
smokescreen; fig. a diversion
The closest CC-CEDICT match for smokescreen is 烟幕 (yān mù), defined as: smokescreen; fig. a diversion.
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Other Chinese words for “smokescreen”
Related words
Other words that share a character with 烟幕.
| 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 |
| 开幕 (開幕) | kāi mù | to open (a conference); to inaugurate |
| 幕后 (幕後) | mù hòu | behind the scenes |
| 字幕 | zì mù | subtitles; captions (of a movie etc) |
| 屏幕 | píng mù | screen (TV, computer or movie) |
See also: Japanese symbol for “smokescreen”.
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.