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煙 — Smoke

JLPT N313 strokesSecondary school#1290 most used
smoke
On’yomiエン (en)
Kun’yomiけむ (kemuru)
Kun’yomiけむり (kemuri)
Kun’yomiけむ (kemui)

Stroke order (13 strokes)

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13

Watch the strokes draw themselves in the correct order — numbers mark where each stroke starts. Diagram from KanjiVG (CC BY-SA).

Common words using 煙

WordReadingMeaning
けむり
kemuri
smoke; fumes
喫煙きつえん
kitsuen
smoking (tobacco)
禁煙きんえん
kinen
abstaining from smoking; quitting smoking; prohibition of smoking
黒煙こくえん
kokuen
black smoke
煙いけむい
kemui
smoky
煙たいけむたい
kemutai
smoky; awkward; uncomfortable

Study notes

煙 is a JLPT N3 kanji written with 13 strokes. It is taught at secondary-school level in Japan. Ranked #1290 of the 2,500 most frequent kanji in newspapers. On’yomi (音読み) are Chinese-derived readings mostly used in compound words; kun’yomi (訓読み) are native Japanese readings, with any highlighted part written in hiragana after the kanji (okurigana).

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