Mnemonic comic for 烟

old variant of 因[yin1]

cause / reason / because

fire / urgent / ammunition / fiery or flaming / internal heat (Chinese medicine) / hot (popular) / classifier for military units (old) / Kangxi radical 86

to smoke (a cigarette, tobacco)

to smoke

to give up smoking

to discharge smoke / to fume with rage

like a wisp of smoke / (to disappear etc) in an instant

opium

cigarette / cigar

sign of human habitation

lit. spouting smoke through the seven orifices (idiom) / fig. to seethe with anger

no sign of human habitation (idiom); desolate

smoking room

to spread a smokescreen

lit. not eating the food of common mortals / fig. placing oneself above the common populace

second-hand smoke

to have smoke billowing from a fireplace or stove (due to a blockage in the chimney)

smoking area

as if degenerating into smoke (idiom); ignorant and unable to see where things are heading

to quit smoking

range hood / kitchen exhaust hood

radiation plume