煙 — smoke

けむり煙 smoke

Grade S Japanese school grade level in which this kanji is taught. Grade 1 is first year of elementary school. 13 strokes

U+7159 Unicode hex codepoint — a unique identifier for this character in the Unicode standard. Freq #1290 Frequency rank among the ~2,500 most common kanji in Japanese newspapers. Lower number = more common. Heisig #1739 Index in James Heisig's "Remembering the Kanji" — a popular textbook that teaches kanji through mnemonics and stories.

Meanings

smoke

word

けむり kemuri Kun'yomi Kun'yomi (訓読み) — the native Japanese reading of this kanji. Used when the kanji appears alone or with okurigana (trailing hiragana).

煙(けむり) kemuri smoke

えん en On'yomi On'yomi (音読み) — the Sino-Japanese reading, derived from Chinese pronunciation. Most commonly used in compound words (jukugo).

喫(きつ) 煙(えん) kitsuen smoking 禁(きん) 煙(えん) kinen no smoking

Jukujikun Jukujikun Jukujikun (熟字訓) — special readings where the pronunciation applies to the whole compound word rather than individual kanji. The reading cannot be split per character.

煙草(たばこ) tabako tobacco

Appears in idioms

火のない所に煙は立たぬ諺

Smoke does not rise where there is no fire

Stroke order

Stroke data from KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0)

Components

Composed of

ひ火 fire #86

垔 block up

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Kangxi Radical The Kangxi radicals are a set of 214 character components standardized in the 1716 Kangxi Dictionary. Every kanji is classified under one radical, used for dictionary lookup and character organization.

#86 火 fire