He vowed to give up smoking.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
戒烟
to give up smoking
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
to give up smoking
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 戒烟 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 戒烟 appears in 41 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
I advised him to give up smoking.
The doctor advised me to stop smoking.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 戒烟.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 戒烟.
Directly before
- 要戒烟3
- 他戒烟3
- 该戒烟3
- 我戒烟3
- 就戒烟1
Directly after
- 戒烟了7
- 戒烟戒酒2
- 戒烟后1
- 戒烟一年1
- 戒烟容易1
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 戒烟
What does 戒烟 mean in Chinese?
戒烟 (jièyān) means to give up smoking.
How do you pronounce 戒烟?
戒烟 is pronounced jièyān.
Is 戒烟 an HSK word?
戒烟 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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