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狼烟
láng​yān

smoke signal

Origin Definitions Defs Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents
狼烟 狼煙 láng​yān
smoke signal
a smoke signal used in ancient times as a military warning; traditionally believed to be produced by burning wolf dung
smoke of war
a metaphor for war, fighting, or social unrest

Frequency

Written text
0.546 per million

Cross-References

Classifier

  • 道 dào

Sources

Frequency data
BCC Corpus (BLCU)
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