煙

煙 (radical 86, 火+9, 13 strokes, cangjie input 火一田土 (FMWG), four-corner 9181₄, composition ⿰火垔)

• 𫴍, 𬮕

• 烟 (Simplified Chinese)

• KangXi: page 677, character 7
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 19203
• Dae Jaweon: page 1088, character 2
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 2215, character 9
• Unihan data for U+7159

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *qiːn) : semantic 火 (“fire”) + phonetic 垔 (OC *qin).

煙

1. smoke; mist; vapour (Classifier: 陣／阵 m c; 團／团 m; 縷／缕 m c; 層／层 m c)

   煙囪裡噴出一團黑煙。 [MSC, trad.]
   烟囱里喷出一团黑烟。 [MSC, simp.]

   Yāncōng lǐ pēnchū yī tuán hēi yān. [Pinyin]

   The chimney blew out a cloud of black smoke.

2. tobacco (plant)
3. tobacco product

   這是一種味淡的煙。 [MSC, trad.]
   这是一种味淡的烟。 [MSC, simp.]

   Zhè shì yī zhǒng wèi dàn de yān. [Pinyin]

   This is a mild tobacco.

4. cigarette (Classifier: 支 m c; 根 m)

   把煙滅了。 / 把烟灭了。  ―  Bǎ yān miè le.  ―  Put out the cigarette.

   他給我捲了一支煙。 [MSC, trad.]
   他给我卷了一支烟。 [MSC, simp.]

   Tā gěi wǒ juǎn le yī zhī yān. [Pinyin]

   He rolled a cigarette for me.

5. opium
6. soot
7. to irritate the eyes by smoke

   做菜忘了開抽油煙機，煙得我流淚。 [MSC, trad.]
   做菜忘了开抽油烟机，烟得我流泪。 [MSC, simp.]

   Zuòcài wàng le kāi chōuyóuyānjī, yān de wǒ liúlèi. [Pinyin]

   When I was cooking, I forgot to turn on the range hood, and the smoke made my eyes water.

8. (Cantonese, slang, informal, card games) ace

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

• Go-on: えん (en, Jōyō)
• Kan-on: えん (en, Jōyō)
• Kun: けむい (kemui, 煙い, Jōyō); けむり (kemuri, 煙り); けむり (kemuri, 煙, Jōyō); けむる (kemuru, 煙る, Jōyō)

/keburi/ → /kemuri/

Shift from Old Japanese-derived keburi reading (see below) as a regular /b/ → /m/ change.[1][2][3] Appears in the Taiheiki of the late 1300s.

Now the most common reading.

• Kun’yomi
  • (Tokyo) けむり [kèmúrí] (Heiban – [0])[2][4][5]
  • IPA^(key): [ke̞mɯ̟ᵝɾʲi]

• 烟 (less common)

煙 (hiragana けむり, rōmaji kemuri)

1. smoke

Truncation of earlier kemuri (see above).[1][2] Appears in kabuki plays of the late Edo Period (late 1700s, early 1800s).

• Kun’yomi
  • (Tokyo) けむ [kèmú] (Heiban – [0])[2][5]
  • IPA^(key): [ke̞mɯ̟ᵝ]

• 烟 (less common)

煙 (hiragana けむ, rōmaji kemu)

1. (informal, colloquial) smoke

The 連用形 (ren'yōkei, “continuative or stem form”) of verb 煙る (keburu, “to be smoky, to give off smoke”).[1][2][3] Appears with this reading in the Man'yōshū.

• Kun’yomi
  • IPA^(key): [ke̞bɯ̟ᵝɾʲi]

• 烟 (less common)

煙 (hiragana けぶり, rōmaji keburi)

1. (archaic, possibly dialectal) smoke

Truncation of earlier keburi (see above).[1][2][3]

• Kun’yomi
  • (Tokyo) けぶ [kèbú] (Heiban – [0])[2]
  • IPA^(key): [ke̞bɯ̟ᵝ]

• 烟 (less common)

煙 (hiragana けぶ, rōmaji kebu)

1. (archaic, possibly dialectal) smoke

From Middle Chinese 煙 (MC ʔen).

• On’yomi
  • IPA^(key): [ẽ̞ɴ]

煙 (hiragana えん, rōmaji en)

1. smoke
2. fog, mist
3. soot
4. tobacco, tobacco products such as cigarettes or cigars

Only found in compounds.

煙 • (yeon, in) (hangeul 연, 인)

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煙 (yên)

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