喫煙きゅうえん

noun, noun or participle which takes 'suru'

smoking

Rare term for the act of smoking tobacco. In modern Japanese, 喫煙 (きつえん) is overwhelmingly more common. This word represents an uncommon variant spelling and reading.

• この書しょ類るいには「吸きゅう煙えん禁きん止し」と書かいてあるが、普ふ通つうは「喫きつ煙えん禁きん止し」と書かく。

  This document says 'no smoking' using 吸煙, but normally it is written as 喫煙禁止.