吸烟(xī yān): to smoke
2 charactersTrad. 吸煙
to smoke
Character breakdown
2 characters · plays one at a time
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Example sentences
How 吸烟 is used in everyday Chinese — the speaker reads the whole sentence.
他素来不吸烟。
tā sù lái bù xī yān
He never smokes.
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