烟 – vocab dash

烟yān

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Meanings

1. cigarette or pipe tobacco (classifier 根 gen1, classifier 縷|缕 lu:3)

2. smoke

3. mist

4. vapour

5. tobacco plant

6. (of the eyes) to be irritated by smoke

7. tobacco (variant of 烟 (yān))

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Examples20

以前yǐqián人们rénmen用yòng烟yān作为zuòwéi联络liánluò信号xìnhào。

Back then, people communicated using smoke signals.

我wǒ爸爸bàba每天měitiān抽chōu一yī包bāo烟yān。

My father smokes a pack of cigarettes a day.

你nǐ最好zuìhǎo别bié抽chōu这么zhème多duō烟yān了le。

You had better not smoke so much.

你nǐ不该bùgāi抽chōu那么nàme多duō烟yān。

You shouldn't smoke so much.

我wǒ讨厌tǎoyàn我wǒ的de衣服yīfu有yǒu烟yān味wèi。

I hate it when my clothes smell of smoke.

房fáng里lǐ有yǒu股gǔ烟yān味wèi。

The room smelled of tobacco.