煙
けむり
hepburn kemuri
smoke
Part of speech · noun
Pattern visualization
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Examples
- 工場の煙突から黒い煙が出ています。Black smoke is coming out of the factory chimney.
- たばこの煙が苦手です。I cannot stand cigarette smoke.
Collocations
煙が出る黒い煙たばこの煙煙が上がる煙突
Mnemonic
煙 kemuri — a native word for "smoke," written with a single kanji. The fire radical 火 plus 垔 — what rises from fire, namely smoke. Kun-yomi けむり; on-yomi えん (煙突, entotsu, "chimney"). The 火 radical shows its tie to fire.
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