禁烟

禁煙
jìnyān
verb #25,784

Meanings

  1. 1 to ban smoking
  2. 2 to prohibit opium
  3. 3 no-smoking (policy)

Examples

Zhèlǐ shì jìnyān qū, qǐng búyào chōuyān.
This is a no-smoking area; please do not smoke.
Lín Zéxú shì jìndài Zhōngguó jìnyān yùndòng de dàibiǎo rénwù.
Lin Zexu was the leading figure of the anti-opium movement in modern China.

Tips

history
禁烟 historically referred to the prohibition of opium (鸦片 yāpiàn). The 1839 Humen Treaty and Lin Zexu's destruction of British opium stocks were landmark禁烟 events that precipitated the First Opium War.

Stroke Order

jìn
yān