漢字Kanji · in Nature & Elements
煙: smoke
JLPT N313 strokesSecondary schoolYour ink: 白 Not met
- 火fire(meaning)
- 垔(sound)
火 carries the meaning · 垔 gives the sound
13 strokes
Small seal · Qin Today
Small seal: Wikimedia Commons, public domain. Today’s form: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Three readings, and the words that use each
エンen · on'yomi · in compounds
- 煙突えんとつchimney
- 煙幕えんまくsmokescreen
- 黒煙こくえんblack smoke
- 発煙筒はつえんとうsmoke candle
- 喫煙所きつえんじょsmoking area
- 禁煙するきんえんするquit smoking
けむるkemuru · kun'yomi · on its own
- 煙るけむるsmoke, appear dim [v.i.]
- 煙たいけむたいsmoky, awkward feeling [adj.]
けむりkemuri · kun'yomi
- 煙けむりsmoke, fumes
Also read けむい, with no example words in our sources. Words: Kanji alive, CC BY 4.0.
成り立ち
Where it comes from
Memory story · made up to help you remember
“Look at 火 and see the campfire! The central stroke is the main flame, and the side strokes are sparks dancing in the wind.”
繋がり
Connections
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
In ChineseSimplified 烟 · traditional, as in Japanese · yān
Japan keeps the traditional form 煙; mainland China simplifies it to 烟.
- Simplified
- 烟 mainland China, Singapore
- Traditional
- 煙 Taiwan, Hong Kong
Pinyin yān most common reading
Forms and pinyin: Unicode Unihan database (Unicode License v3). Pinyin lists the most common reading, not every reading.
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