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CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY

香烟

xiāngyān

smoke from incense (burned as an offering to one's ancestors); (fig.) continuation of family…

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

01

smoke from incense (burned as an offering to one's ancestors); (fig.) continuation of family line

02

cigarette (classifier: 支,条,根 gēn,包 bāo,盒 hé)

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 香烟 actually appears in real sentences.

These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 香烟 appears in 10 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.

咖啡和香烟。kā fēi hé xiāng yān。

Coffee and cigarettes.

给我支香烟吧。gěi wǒ zhī xiāng yān ba。

Give me a cigarette.

别忘了把香烟熄掉。bié wàng le bǎ xiāng yān xī diào。

Don't forget to extinguish your cigarette.

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 香烟.

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

Directly before

  • 把香烟2
  • 被香烟1
  • 一根香烟1
  • 喜欢香烟1
  • 吸着香烟1

Directly after

  • 香烟的2
  • 香烟害死1
  • 香烟熄掉1
  • 香烟是1
  • 香烟戒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 香烟

What does 香烟 mean in Chinese?

香烟 (xiāngyān) means smoke from incense (burned as an offering to one's ancestors); (fig.) continuation of family….

How do you pronounce 香烟?

香烟 is pronounced xiāngyān.

Is 香烟 an HSK word?

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

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