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CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY

抽烟

chōuyān

to smoke (tobacco)

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

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to smoke (tobacco)

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 抽烟 actually appears in real sentences.

These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 抽烟 appears in 43 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.

我不抽烟。wǒ bù chōu yān。

I don't smoke.

你抽不抽烟?nǐ chōu bù chōu yān?

Do you smoke?

抽烟请到外面抽。chōu yān qǐng dào wài miàn chōu。

If you are going to smoke, please go outside.

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 抽烟.

Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 抽烟.

Directly before

  • 不抽烟9
  • 这里抽烟3
  • 我抽烟2
  • 你抽烟2
  • 年轻人抽烟1

Directly after

  • 抽烟吗7
  • 抽烟的5
  • 抽烟了2
  • 抽烟对2
  • 抽烟请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 抽烟

What does 抽烟 mean in Chinese?

抽烟 (chōuyān) means to smoke (tobacco).

How do you pronounce 抽烟?

抽烟 is pronounced chōuyān.

Is 抽烟 an HSK word?

抽烟 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.

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