What 烟 means
It began as a character for smoke. An earlier form appears in writing on bronze objects from the late Spring and Autumn period, an era in ancient China. In 烟, 火 signals a fire-related meaning and 因 is a sound component. Later meanings included mist, soot used to make ink, tobacco, and opium; imported tobacco added the tobacco sense in the late Ming period.
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Who writes 烟
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Related characters
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Combination ideas
3Cooking smoke.
Tobacco.
Smoke or haze.
Questions people ask
1Why does 烟 show as a box on some devices?
Because that device's fonts have no glyph for it. The character is still correct and still copies correctly — the box is a missing glyph, not a broken character.
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How to type or find 烟
- Search it as
- smoke · tobacco · cigarette · yan · 煙 · 烟草
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Windows (Word)
Windows
HTML
烟CSS
\70DFHow to type 烟
In a Chinese Pinyin input method, type yan and choose 烟 from the candidates; the same spelling can match several characters.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
烟
HTML hex
烟
CSS content
content: "\70DF";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E7%83%9F
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On screen
1
Code points
1
JS .length
3
UTF-8 bytes
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.