HSK 6 · Nature

炊烟 chuīyān “smoke from cooking fires” in Chinese

Traditional 炊煙

What 炊烟 means

  1. smoke from cooking fires
  2. smoke from kitchen chimneys

How to say 炊烟

  • Pitch chart of the first tone: stays high and level, 5 to 5 on the five-level scale炊chuī1st tone, high and level
  • Pitch chart of the first tone: stays high and level, 5 to 5 on the five-level scale烟yān1st tone, high and level

炊烟 in a sentence

  1. 傍晚，村子里升起了炊烟。

    Bàngwǎn, cūnzi lǐ shēngqǐ le chuīyān.

    In the evening, smoke rose from the kitchens in the village.

    Sentence by WillyChina

  2. 看到炊烟，我就想起了家乡。

    Kàndào chuīyān, wǒ jiù xiǎngqǐ le jiāxiāng.

    Seeing the cooking smoke, I thought of my hometown.

    Sentence by WillyChina

How 炊烟 is built

Each colour is one part of the character. Parts repeat across thousands of characters, so learning them makes new words easier. See all 214 in our radicals chart.

The character 炊 (chuī) with each of its parts in a different colour
炊chuīto cook food
  • 火fire · huǒMeaning part
  • 欠yawn · qiànSound part

火 hints at the meaning (fire); 欠 (qiàn) hints at the sound. Compare it with chuī.

The character 烟 (yān) with each of its parts in a different colour
烟yāncigarette or pipe tobacco
  • 火fire · huǒMeaning part
  • 因cause · yīnSound part

火 hints at the meaning (fire); 因 (yīn) hints at the sound. Compare it with yān.

How to write 炊烟

炊 8 strokes · 烟 10 strokes

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炊烟 (chuīyān) stroke order chart: each stroke of the characters in the order you write them
Stroke order chart for 炊烟 (chuīyān). Red marks the next stroke, so you can copy it onto paper one step at a time.

Words related to 炊烟

Words with 烟

抽烟chōuyān · to smoke (a cigarette烟花爆竹yānhuābàozhú · fireworks and firecrackers

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FAQs

炊烟 (chuīyān) means “smoke from cooking fires” or “smoke from kitchen chimneys”. It is an HSK 6 word.
Say it chuīyān: chuī with a 1st tone, then yān with a 1st tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
In Traditional characters, used in Taiwan and Hong Kong, 炊烟 is written 炊煙. The pronunciation is the same.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type chuiyan with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 炊烟 from the suggestions. Typing chuiyan into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
炊烟 is an HSK 6 word in the HSK 2.0 word lists.

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Sources: meaning and pinyin checked by a native Mandarin teacher against the official HSK lists. Extra meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Example sentences written by WillyChina. Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.