人烟

人煙
rényān
noun #38,029

Meanings

  1. 1 signs of human habitation
  2. 2 people living in a place

Examples

HSK 3
Zǒu le bàntiān, wǒmen zhōngyú kàndào le rényān.
After walking for hours, we finally saw signs of people.
HSK 4
Shēnshān zhōng hěnshǎo yǒu rényān, zhǐyǒu yì tiáo xiǎolù.
Deep in the mountains there are few signs of people, only a narrow path.

Tips

usage
人烟 is literally 'people's smoke', the smoke of cooking fires that shows a place is lived in. It lives in set phrases: 人烟稀少 'sparsely populated', 荒无人烟 'desolate and uninhabited'.

Stroke Order

人 rén
烟 yān