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Mythic Mandarin

烟 (yān): meaning and stroke order

烟 (yān) means cigarette or pipe tobacco, CL:根, smoke, mist, vapour, 缕, tobacco plant.

烟

Simplified
烟
Traditional
煙, 菸
Pinyin
yān

Stroke order of 烟

烟

  • yān cigarette or pipe tobacco; CL:根[gen1]
  • yān tobacco (variant of 煙|烟[yan1])
  • 10 strokes
  • Traditional form: 煙

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 烟

  1. yān Traditional 煙
    • 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
  2. yān Traditional 菸
    • tobacco (variant of 煙|烟[yan1])

Radical and structure

烟
Radical 火 (Kangxi radical 86) · 10 strokes · 火 on the left, 因 on the right

Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan database. Structure: the shapes a character is written with (BabelStone IDS), not necessarily parts that carry meaning or sound.

Words with 烟

Dictionary data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Stroke data: Hanzi Writer data, derived from Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License). Animation: Hanzi Writer (MIT licence). Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan (Unicode License v3).