Tom doesn't like people who smoke in no smoking areas.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
禁烟
to ban smoking
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
to ban smoking
02
to quit smoking
03
to prohibit cooking
04
prohibition on opium (esp. in China from 1729)
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 禁烟 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 禁烟 appears in 2 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
In the U.S., you have the option, when you enter a restaurant, to sit in the smoking or non-smoking section.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 禁烟.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 禁烟.
Directly before
- 或是禁烟1
- 在禁烟1
Directly after
- 禁烟区2
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 禁烟
What does 禁烟 mean in Chinese?
禁烟 (jìnyān) means to ban smoking.
How do you pronounce 禁烟?
禁烟 is pronounced jìnyān.
Is 禁烟 an HSK word?
禁烟 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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