xiāng​yān HSK7

cigarette

香烟 (香菸) xiāng​yān frequency
cigarette noun
cigarette (classifiers: zhī, tiáo, gēn, bāo, )

He casually handed me a cigarette, but I had already quit smoking.

香烟 (香煙) xiāng​yān
cigarette noun
a cigarette

Smoking is harmful to your health; please quit cigarettes as soon as possible.

incense smoke noun
smoke from incense burned as an offering, or figuratively, the continuation of a family line

Because he had no heirs, he worried that his family line would end.

Frequency

Movie subtitles
13.2 per million appears in 5% of films
Written text
9.15 per million

Details

HSK 3.0
Level 7

Sources

Definitions
CC-CEDICT