烟火 yānhuǒ smoke and fire
smoke and fire; cooked food; (literary) beacon fire; (literary) descendants; posterity
How to remember 烟火: 烟 smoke + 火 fire (Kangxi radical 86) = smoke and fire.
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How it is used
- 'Cooked food / worldly life; fireworks' - 人间烟火 (rénjiān yānhuǒ) the warmth and bustle of ordinary human life.
- 不食人间烟火 (bù shí rénjiān yānhuǒ) 'not eating mortal food' - aloof, otherworldly.
- Note: read as yānhuǒ it leans 'smoke and fire/worldly life'; as fireworks it overlaps with 烟花 (below).