Do you smoke?
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
吸烟
to smoke
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
to smoke
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 吸烟 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 吸烟 appears in 69 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
He does not smoke.
Stop smoking.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 吸烟.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 吸烟.
Directly before
- 不吸烟5
- 停止吸烟5
- 禁止吸烟5
- 不准吸烟4
- 这里吸烟3
Directly after
- 吸烟的8
- 吸烟吗8
- 吸烟对6
- 吸烟是3
- 吸烟了3
ABOUT THIS ENTRY
Where this entry comes from
The HSK level, part of speech, and pronunciation come from the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus. The English definitions come from CC-CEDICT. Corpus sentences, collocations, and the frequency figure come from the Tatoeba Chinese sentence export and are counted rather than written, so nothing on this page is invented. Usage notes and the hand-written examples that appear higher up exist only for a handful of entries.
Definitions from CC-CEDICT, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Vocabulary levels and parts of speech from the HSK 3.1 syllabus. This compiled dictionary is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
COMMON QUESTIONS
About 吸烟
What does 吸烟 mean in Chinese?
吸烟 (xīyān) means to smoke.
How do you pronounce 吸烟?
吸烟 is pronounced xīyān.
Is 吸烟 an HSK word?
吸烟 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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