浓烟 (nóng yān) — dense smoke, thick smoke

Definition

noun

dense smokethick smoke

Measure word · 股

浓烟，。
Huǒ zāi xiàn chǎng mào chū gǔn gǔn nóng yān, xiāo fáng yuán zhèng zài quán lì pū jiù.
Thick smoke billowed from the fire scene, and firefighters were fighting it with all their might.
浓烟。
Gōng chǎng pái fàng de nóng yān yán zhòng wū rǎn le kōng qì.
The dense smoke emitted by the factory has seriously polluted the air.
，浓烟。
Tā wǔ zhù kǒu bí, chōng jìn le nóng yān zhī zhōng.
He covered his mouth and nose and rushed into the thick smoke.

Compound word

构词法gòucífǎ

偏正piānzhèngModifier + head

The first part narrows down the second: it says what kind of thing the head is.

“浓” means dense and “烟” means smoke; together they name thick smoke.

Characters in this word

Most characters — around four in five — are built this way: one part hints at the meaning, the other at the pronunciation.

This origin belongs to the traditional form 濃; 浓 is its simplified writing.

氵農濃

Meaning part形符xíngfú

氵Written in full as水shuǐwater

Sound part声符shēngfú

農

農nóng濃nóng

Same sound today

The traditional form 濃 has 氵 as water and 農 as the sound part; this is the form described here.

Most characters — around four in five — are built this way: one part hints at the meaning, the other at the pronunciation.

This origin belongs to the traditional form 煙; 烟 is its simplified writing.

The simplified 烟 stands for more than one traditional character. In most words (烟) it is 煙; in others it is 菸.

火垔煙

Meaning part形符xíngfú

Sound part声符shēngfú

垔

垔yīn煙yān

The sound has drifted apartThe sound part was a clue two thousand years ago — it often still helps, but not always.

This story is about the traditional form 煙, not the simplified 烟. It pairs 火, fire, with 垔, which gives the sound.

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