公煙

公煙

Chinese

		just; honorable; public just; honorable; public; common; fair; duke; mister	cigarette; tobacco; smoke
trad. (公煙)		公	煙
simp. (公烟)		公	烟

Etymology

From 公班衙 (“the British East India Company”).[1]

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): gōngyān

  (Zhuyin): ㄍㄨㄥ ㄧㄢ

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Pinyin: gōngyān
    • Zhuyin: ㄍㄨㄥ ㄧㄢ
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: gongian
    • IPA ^(key): /kʊŋ⁵⁵ i̯ɛn⁵⁵/

Noun

公煙

1. (historical) foreign opium
2. (historical) opium whose sale was sanctioned by the government

Derived terms

公煙館／公烟馆

舊公煙／旧公烟

Related terms

• 公膏, 公土, 公班土

References

1. “アヘン”, in 日本大百科全書：ニッポニカ (Nippon Dai Hyakka Zensho: Nipponica, “Encyclopedia Nipponica”)‎ (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, 1984