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The Chinese word for smoke is

yān



smoke

Chinese Definition


smoke
     1. 名词.
     2. 名词. 灰云
     3. 名词. 抽烟
     4. 名词. 吸烟



Translations for smoke and their definitions

     1. Variant of 煙
     2. Only used in 烟熅 (, 烟烟熅熅)


吸煙
     1. v. (intransitive) to smoke (tobacco products)
           禁止 吸煙。 - No smoking.
           請 勿 吸煙。 - Thank you for not smoking.
           這 是 公共.場所,請 您 不要 吸煙。 - This is a public place — please do not smoke.


冒煙
     1. v. to give off smoke; (of smoke) to belch; to rise
     2. v. (colloquial) to fume with rage; to get angry; to flare up


     1. smoke; mist; vapour
           煙囪 裡 噴出 一 團 黑 煙。 - The chimney blew out a cloud of black smoke.
     2. tobacco (plant)
     3. tobacco product
           這 是 一 種 味 淡 的 煙。 - This is a mild tobacco.
     4. cigarette
           把 煙 滅 了。 - Put out the cigarette.
           他 給 我 捲 了 一 支 煙。 - He rolled a cigarette for me.
     5. opium
           ^虎門 銷 煙 - destruction of opium at Humen
     6. soot
     7. to irritate the eyes by smoke
           做菜 忘 了 開 抽油煙機,煙 得de 我 流淚。 - When I was cooking, I forgot to turn on the range hood, and the smoke made my eyes water.
     8. (Cantonese, Liuzhou Mandarin, informal, card games) ace
           啤pe1 煙 - pair of aces -


吸菸
     1. Variant of 吸煙


冒烟
     1. Simplified form of 冒煙


抽煙
     1. v. (intransitive) to smoke (tobacco)


抽菸
     1. Variant of 抽煙


     1. to draw out
           抽水 - to pump water -
     2. to take out (object, person, time, etc.)
     3. to draw lots
           抽獎 - to draw for a prize -
           抽籤 - to draw lots -
     4. to put forth; to sprout out
     5. to smoke; to take in
           抽煙 - to smoke -
     6. to shrink; to contract
     7. (literary, or in compounds) to grow; to sprout
     8. to whip; to flog; to cane
     9. (xiangqi) to fork with a check
           將軍 抽 車geoi1 - check with a fork on the chariot
     10. (slang) to become abnormal
           我 顯示器 抽 了。 - My monitor went crazy.
     11. (Cantonese) to lift up; to carry
     12. (Cantonese)
           一 抽 鎖匙 - a bunch of keys -
           一 抽 提子 - a bunch of grapes -



烟雾弹
     1. Simplified form of 煙霧彈


抽烟
     1. Simplified form of 抽煙


吸烟
     1. Simplified form of 吸煙


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