菸
yānyú HSK3

to fade

烟 煙 yān frequency
variant 菸
cigarette noun
tobacco or tobacco products like cigarettes; (bound form) the tobacco plant

请你把烟扔掉。

qǐng nǐ bǎ yān rēng diào.

Please throw the cigarette away.

smoke noun
gas and visible particles emitted by a burning substance

她透过烟看着他。

tā tòu​guò yān kàn zhe tā.

She looked at him through the smoke.

opium
(bound form) opium
to be irritated by smoke
to be stung or irritated by smoke, particularly of the eyes
菸 yān
tobacco; smoke
tobacco; cigarette; opium; (variant of 烟 yān) smoke; mist-like substance
烟 菸 yú
to wither
(archaic) to wither or dry up like a dying plant; dried or faded leaves

Frequency
Character
Written text
5,157th most common 0.811 per million
Movie subtitles
3,708th most common 1.07 per million appears in 0% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
41.5 per million appears in 14% of films
Written text
53.8 per million

Details
HSK 3.0
Level 3
Strokes
11
Unicode
U+83F8

Sources
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)