烟

See also: 煙 and 菸

烟 U+70DF, 烟 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-70DF ← 烞 [U+70DE] CJK Unified Ideographs 烠 → [U+70E0]

Translingual

Traditional	煙
Simplified	烟
Japanese	煙
Korean	煙

Han character

烟 (Kangxi radical 86, 火+6, 10 strokes, Cangjie input 火田大 (FWK), composition ⿰火因)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 671, character 4
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 19022
• Dae Jaweon: page 1080, character 3
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 2199, character 12
• Unihan data for U+70DF

Chinese

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 烟
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Small seal script

Characters in the same phonetic series (因) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
欭	*qrils
烟	*qiːn, *qin
胭	*qiːn
咽	*qiːn, *qiːns, *qiːd
恩	*qɯːn
煾	*qɯːn
因	*qin
姻	*qin
茵	*qin
鞇	*qin
氤	*qin
洇	*qin
駰	*qin, *qrin
絪	*qin
裀	*qin

Etymology 1

For pronunciation and definitions of 烟 – see 煙 (“smoke; mist; vapour; tobacco; etc.”). (This character is the simplified and variant form of 煙).

Notes: Simplified Chinese is mainly used in Mainland China, Malaysia, and Singapore. Traditional Chinese is mainly used in Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan.

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): yīn (yin¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄧㄣ

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: yīn
    • Zhuyin: ㄧㄣ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: yin
    • Wade–Giles: yin¹
    • Yale: yīn
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: in
    • Palladius: инь (inʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /in⁵⁵/

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• Middle Chinese: 'jin

Rime
Character	烟
Reading #	1/2
Initial (聲)	影 (34)
Final (韻)	眞 (43)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	於眞切
Baxter	'jin
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ʔiɪn/
Pan Wuyun	/ʔin/
Shao Rongfen	/ʔjen/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ʔin/
Li Rong	/ʔiĕn/
Wang Li	/ĭĕn/
Bernhard Karlgren	/ʔi̯ĕn/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	yīn
Expected Cantonese Reflex	jan1

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*qin/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	烟
Reading #	2/2
No.	15183
Phonetic component	因
Rime group	眞
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	因
Old Chinese	/*qin/

Definitions

烟

1. only used in 烟熅 and 烟烟熅熅

Japanese

Kanji

烟

(Hyōgai kanji)

1. alternative form of 煙

Readings

• Go-on: えん (en)
• Kan-on: えん (en)
• Kun: けむい (kemui, 烟い)、けむり (kemuri, 烟り)、けむり (kemuri, 烟)、けむる (kemuru, 烟る)

Etymology

Kanji in this term
烟
けむり Hyōgai
kun'yomi

Kanji in this term
烟
けむ Hyōgai
kun'yomi

Kanji in this term
烟
けぶり Hyōgai
kun'yomi

Kanji in this term
烟
けぶ Hyōgai
kun'yomi

For pronunciation and definitions of 烟 – see the following entry.

【煙けむり】S [noun] smoke 【煙けむ】S [noun] [from 1275] (informal, colloquial) smoke 【煙けぶり】S [noun] (archaic, possibly dialect) smoke 【煙けぶ】S [noun] (archaic, possibly dialect) smoke

(This term, 烟, is an alternative spelling (rare) of the above term.)

Korean

Hanja

烟 • (yeon) (hangeul 연, revised yeon, McCune–Reischauer yŏn, Yale yen)

1. smoke