Chinese symbol for “snuff”
鼻烟
bí yān
Traditional: 鼻煙
snuff (powdered tobacco for sniffing)
The closest CC-CEDICT match for snuff is 鼻烟 (bí yān), defined as: snuff (powdered tobacco for sniffing).
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Related words
Other words that share a character with 鼻烟.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 鼻子 | bí zi | nose; 个 (gè),只 (zhī) |
| 鼻孔 | bí kǒng | nostril; 只 (zhī) |
| 鼻涕 | bí tì | nasal mucus; snivel; snot |
| 鼻炎 | bí yán | rhinitis |
| 鼻祖 | bí zǔ | the earliest ancestor; originator (of a tradition, school of thought etc) |
| 鼻腔 | bí qiāng | nasal cavity |
| 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 |
See also: Japanese symbol for “snuff”.
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.