烟
yān HSK3

smoke

烟 (煙) yān frequency
tobacco noun
tobacco, cigarettes, or the tobacco plant

为了身体健康，他已经决定彻底戒烟了。

wèi​le shēn​tǐ jiàn​kāng, tā yǐ​jīng jué​dìng chè​dǐ jiè yān le.

For the sake of his health, he has decided to quit smoking for good.

smoke verb
smoke, mist, or vapor

远处着火的地方正冒出一股滚滚的黑烟。

yuǎn​chù zháo​huǒ de dì​fang zhèng mào​chū yī gǔ gǔn​gǔn de hēi yān.

Thick black smoke was billowing from the site of the fire in the distance.

irritate noun
to have one's eyes irritated by smoke

柴火烟太重，烟得我直流泪。

chái​huo yān tài zhòng, yān de wǒ zhí liú​lèi.

The smoke from the firewood was so thick it made my eyes water.

烟 (菸) yān
tobacco noun
tobacco; cigarette (variant of 烟 yān)

他买了一包烟。

tā mǎi le yī bāo yān.

He bought a pack of cigarettes.

Cross-References

Classifier

Frequency
Character
Written text
967th most common 171.2 per million
Movie subtitles
961st most common 112.6 per million appears in 33% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
41.5 per million appears in 14% of films
Written text
53.8 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 4
HSK 3.0
Level 3
Traditional
煙
Strokes
10
Unicode
U+70DF

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