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吸烟

xī yān

HSK 4 · word 2947 of 3,000

Meaning

• to smoke

Example sentence

Characters in 吸烟

• 吸 xī to breathe
• 烟 yān cigarette or pipe tobacco

吸 to suck plus 烟, smoke. A verb-object pair, so it splits; 抽烟 is the everyday twin.

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