Chinese word dictionary

炊烟

chuīyān · smoke from kitchen chimneys

Practice word

Word information

Simplified炊烟

Traditional炊煙

Pinyinchuīyān

Part of speech名

HSK 3.07-9

HSK 2.0Not listed

Character breakdown

Study each Hanzi separately, then return to the complete word so pronunciation, meaning, and movement stay connected.

炊chuī

meal; to cook, to steam

烟yān

smoke, soot; opium; tobacco, cigarettes

How to learn 炊烟

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烟yān

cigarette or pipe tobacco; CL:根[gen1]; smoke; mist; vapour; CL:縷|缕[lu:3]; tobacco plant; (of the eyes) to be irritated by smoke; tobacco (variant of 煙|烟[yan1])

抽烟chōu yān

to smoke (a cigarette, tobacco)

烟囱yāncōng

chimney; smokestack; stovepipe

烟花yānhuā

fireworks; prostitute (esp. in Yuan theater)

烟火yānhuǒ

smoke and fire; cooked food; (literary) beacon fire; (literary) descendants; posterity

戒烟jiè yān

to give up smoking