1 to smoke

1 to give up smoking

1 to smoke (a cigarette, tobacco)

1 fire beacon (used as alarm signal over long distance)

1 cigarette or pipe tobacco

2 classifier: 根 gēn

3 smoke

4 mist

5 vapour

6 classifier: 缕 lǚ

7 tobacco plant

8 (of the eyes) to be irritated by smoke

1 lit. the falling of one leaf heralds the coming of autumn (idiom)

2 fig. a small sign can indicate a great trend

3 a straw in the wind

1 lit. eyes obscured by a single leaf (idiom)

2 fig. not seeing the wider picture

3 can't see the wood for the trees

1 lit. spouting smoke through the seven orifices (idiom)

2 fig. to seethe with anger

1 no sign of human habitation (idiom); desolate

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