smoke from cooking; kitchen smoke
Formal or literary term for smoke rising from a cooking fire or stove; often evokes a rustic or nostalgic scene.
The sight of cooking smoke rising from a mountain village is somehow nostalgic.
Standard kanji form; 炊 means 'cook' and 煙 means 'smoke'.
Variant with 烟, an alternative character for 'smoke'; less common than 煙.
Compound of 炊 (cook) and 煙 (smoke). The exact historical derivation is uncertain, but the word is used in classical and literary contexts.