Traditional: 吸煙
吸烟 (xī yān) means “to smoke”. It is an HSK 4 Chinese word (traditional 吸煙) in the HSK 3.0 vocabulary.
Practice each character:
这里不能吸烟。
Zhèlǐ bù néng xīyān.
Smoking is not allowed here.
Updated: 2026-07-18