菸 (yān)
tobacco; cigarette (standard form in Taiwan)
How 菸 is written
- Strokes
- 11
- Radical
- 艹 — grass
- Traditional
- 菸
- Simplified
- 菸 (unchanged)
Components
- 艹 grass
- 方 square/raft
- 人 human
- ⺀ dot
菸 has 2 readings
The pronunciation changes with the meaning, so the reading has to be learned per word.
- yān
- variant of 煙|烟[yan1]; cigarette; tobacco; smoke
- yū
- to wither; dried leaves; faded; withered
菸 in a sentence
抽菸對身體不好。
Chōuyān duì shēntǐ bù hǎo.
“Smoking is harmful to health.”
How common is 菸?
菸 is the 5,114th most frequent character in written Chinese. Characters up to this rank account for about 99.9% of all running text.
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