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1 to smoke (a cigarette, tobacco)

1 round

2 lump

3 ball

4 to roll into a ball

5 to gather

6 regiment

7 group

8 society

9 classifier for a lump or a soft mass: wad (of paper), ball (of wool), cloud (of smoke)

1 to pervade

2 to fill the air

3 diffuse

4 everywhere present

5 about to inundate (water)

6 permeated by (smoke)

7 filled with (dust)

8 to saturate (the air with fog, smoke etc)

1 big mouthful (of food, drink, smoke etc)

2 open mouth

3 gulping

4 gobbling

5 gaping

1 lit. without wind there cannot be waves (idiom); there must be a reason

2 no smoke without fire

1 to go up in smoke

2 to vanish

1 second-hand smoke

1 wind does not come from an empty cave without reason

2 there's no smoke without fire (idiom)

1 (slang) to smoke pot

1 smoke

1 thigh

2 part of a whole

3 portion of a sum

4 (stock) share

5 strand of a thread

6 low-level administrative unit, translated as "section" or "department" etc, ranked below 科[kē]

7 classifier for long winding things like ropes, rivers etc

8 classifier for smoke, smells etc: thread, puff, whiff

9 classifier for bands of people, gangs etc

10 classifier for sudden forceful actions

1 smoke and fire

2 fireworks

1 to vanish like smoke in thin air

2 to disappear

1 fire beacon tower (used in frontier regions in former times to relay information about the enemy, using smoke by day and fire at night)

1 to have smoke billowing from a fireplace or stove (due to a blockage in the chimney)

1 mist

2 smoke

3 cloud

1 lit. scattered ashes and dispersed smoke (idiom)

2 fig. to be annihilated

3 to vanish in a puff of smoke

1 to smoke

1 like a wisp of smoke

2 (to disappear etc) in an instant