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煙

yān

smoke

Phonosemantic compound. 火 represents the meaning and 垔 represents the sound.

Components
火 meaning component

火  Meaning component

huǒ

  

fire

垔 sound component

垔  Sound component

yīn

  

dam up, block, restrain

Evolution

煙 Bronze script Late Spring and Autumn (~500 BC)

Bronze script

Late Spring and Autumn (~500 BC)
煙 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
煙 Clerical script Cao Wei (Three Kingdoms: 222-280 AD)

Clerical script

Cao Wei (Three Kingdoms: 222-280 AD)
煙 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

烟 (煙) 

yān

smoke, soot; opium; tobacco, cigarettes; cigarette or pipe tobacco; CL:根[gēn]; smoke; mist; vapour; CL:縷|缕[lǚ]; tobacco plant; (of the eyes) to be irritated by smoke

Most common words with 煙
Freq.
Word
Meaning

烟

smoke

抽烟

to smoke (a cigarette, tobacco)

吸烟

to smoke

香烟

cigarette

烟花

fireworks

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[q]ˤi[n]

'en

yān

smoke


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 33.3974% of movies

961st most common character in movies

967th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

13

Simplified

烟

Unicode

U+7159

Shuowen

“煙，火气也。从火，垔聲。烟，或从因；，古文；，籀文从宀。”


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