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抽烟

chōu yān

HSK 4 · word 2295 of 3,000

Meaning

• to smoke (tobacco)

Example sentence

Characters in 抽烟

• 抽 chōu to draw out; to pull out from in between
• 烟 yān cigarette or pipe tobacco

抽 to draw out plus 烟, smoke. Drawing smoke — a verb-object pair, so it splits: 抽了一支烟.

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