煙けむり

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Common wordJLPTN3Freq.FrequencyTop 10,000

Meanings

smoke; fumes

General term for visible vapor from burning or heating.

〈場ば所しょ〉から煙けむりが上あがるsmoke rises from a place
工こう場じょうの煙えん突とつから煙けむりが上あがっている。
Smoke is rising from the factory chimney.
煙けむりが目めにしみるsmoke stings/irritates the eyes
たき火びの煙けむりが目めにしみて痛いたい。
The smoke from the bonfire is stinging my eyes.
煙けむりにまかれるto be engulfed/choked by smoke
火か事じの煙けむりにまかれて逃にげるのが大たい変へんだった。
It was hard to escape while being engulfed in the fire's smoke.
煙けむりが消きえるthe smoke clears/disappears
風かぜが吹ふくと煙けむりがすぐに消きえた。
When the wind blew, the smoke quickly disappeared.

蒸じょう気きN2
蒸気 refers to steam or vapor, often from water or heat, while 煙 specifically means smoke produced by burning something.
煤ばい煙えん
煤煙 is a more formal, technical word for sooty industrial smoke, whereas 煙 is the everyday general term for any smoke.
硝しょう煙えん
硝煙 specifically means the smoke produced by burning gunpowder, while 煙 is the general word for smoke of any kind.
噴ふん煙えん
煙 is smoke in general, while 噴煙 specifically refers to smoke or ash forcefully expelled from a volcano or similar eruption.
黒こく煙えん
煙 is the plain, unmarked word for smoke of any color, whereas 黒煙 specifies that the smoke is black.

湯ゆ気げN2
湯気 is the white steam rising from hot water or food, while 煙 is smoke from something burning; the two look similar but come from different sources.
炎ほのおN3
炎 refers to the glowing flame itself, while 煙 refers to the smoke rising from a fire—learners sometimes mix up which one is which.
タバコN5
タバコ (tobacco/cigarette) shares the kanji 煙 with 煙 (けむり, smoke), but they are read differently and mean different things—one is the product, the other the smoke it produces.

筋すじN2
A thin, rising trail of 煙 is counted with 筋, as in 一筋の煙 (a wisp of smoke).

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Native Japanese word. The kanji 煙 is a phono-semantic compound with 火 (fire) and 垔 (phonetic, also suggesting something rising).