烟嘴

煙嘴
yānzuǐ
noun #34,619

Measure Word

Meanings

  1. 1 cigarette holder
  2. 2 mouthpiece of a cigarette / pipe
  3. 3 filter tip

Examples

Tā yòng yī gè yín zhì de yānzuǐ chōuyān.
He smoked using a silver cigarette holder.
Zhè zhǒng xiāngyān de yānzuǐ dài yǒu guòlǜ gōngnéng.
This brand's cigarette filter tip has filtration built in.

Tips

culture
The long-stemmed 烟嘴 (cigarette holder) is a vintage accessory associated in Chinese pop culture with old Shanghai socialites and figures like Audrey Hepburn's 《蒂凡尼早餐》 (Breakfast at Tiffany's). For a traditional Chinese tobacco pipe, the wooden mouthpiece is also called 烟嘴, and the pipe stem is the (yāngǎn).
memory
= 'smoke / tobacco' + = 'mouth'. The 'mouth' end of the smoking apparatus.

Stroke Order

yān
zuǐ