Chinese word dictionary

烟蒂

yān dì · cigarette butt

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Word information

Simplified烟蒂

Traditional菸蒂

Pinyinyān dì

Part of speechDictionary

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Character breakdown

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

烟yān

smoke, soot; opium; tobacco, cigarettes

蒂dì

root cause; the stem of a fruit; the peduncle of a flower

How to learn 烟蒂

Listen once without reading, repeat the pinyin with its tones, then write every character in sequence. Finally, recall the complete meaning instead of memorizing each character as an isolated translation.

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Words with the same characters

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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)

炊烟chuīyān

smoke from kitchen chimneys

根深蒂固gēnshēn-dìgù

deep-rooted (problem etc)

烟囱yāncōng

chimney; smokestack; stovepipe

烟花yānhuā

fireworks; prostitute (esp. in Yuan theater)