Language/Mandarin-chinese/Vocabulary/烟(煙)-yān-tobacco;-cigarette;-smoke

烟(煙) yān tobacco; cigarette; smoke in Mandarin Chinese

Definition

Radical is 火 huŏ “fire”. This radical is referred to colloquially as 火字旁 huŏzìpáng “side made up of the character 火.” When 火 is written at the left of a character as a radical, its last stroke is shortened so that it doesn’t collide with the component to its right. Phonetic of the simplified form is 因 yīn. The traditional form contains 西 xī and 土 tŭ. Distinguish simplified 烟 from 因 yīn.

Examples

• 烟 (煙) yān tobacco, cigarette; smoke [N]
• 抽烟 (抽煙) chōuyān smoke (cigarettes, etc.) [VO]
• 香烟 (香煙) xiāngyān cigarette [N]
• 一根烟 (一根煙) yìgēn yān a cigarette
• 一包烟 (一包煙) yìbāo yān a pack of cigarettes
• 一条烟 (一條煙) yìtiáo yān a carton of cigarettes

Sources

Book: Intermediate Written Chinese by Cornelius C. Kubler

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