煙管

煙管

1. smoke pipe or tube; flue header

• (Hokkien) 薰吹

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From Khmer ខ្សៀរ (khsiěrô) or ខ្សៀ (khsiě, “a pipe for smoking”).^[1][2] Tobacco trade from Europe first went through Southeast Asia before reaching Japan. One source^[3] suggests that the Khmer word itself was a borrowing from Spanish que sorber or Portuguese que sorver, “that which is sucked upon”.

Variant readings include kiseri and kisero,^[1] although these are rare.

The kanji spelling 煙管 is an example of jukujikun (熟字訓).

• (Tokyo) きせる (Heiban – )^[2][4]
• IPA^(key):

煙管(きせる) or 煙管(キセル) or 煙管(キセリ) or 煙管(キセロ) • (kiseru or kiseri or kisero) 

1. a tobacco pipe with a metal stem
2. (slang) a way of cheating on one's train fare

   The train rider purchases two tickets, one for a short distance at the start of the journey, and one for a short distance at the end of the journey. In this way, the rider can avoid having to pay full fare for the total distance traveled.

   A pun on the way that there is 金 (kane, “metal; money”) on both ends, but not in the middle, similar to a kiseru pipe.

3. (slang) a way of buying votes for an election

   The vote buyer pays the voter part before the election and part after (assuming the election buyer wins).

   A pun on the way that there is 金 (kane, “metal; money”) on both ends, but not in the middle, similar to a kiseru pipe.

4. (obsolete) during the Edo period, someone who sold slow match to theater-goers to use to light their pipes

• (fare dodging): 不(ふ)正(せい)乗(じょう)車(しゃ) (fusei jōsha) (official, formal), ただ乗(の)り (tadanori) (not paying any fare at all)
• (slow match seller): 火(ひ)縄(なわ)売(うり) (hinawauri)

煙管(きせる)する • (kiseru suru) suru (stem 煙管(きせる)し (kiseru shi), past 煙管(きせる)した (kiseru shita))

1. (slang) to cheat on one's train fare

Ultimately from Middle Chinese 煙管 (MC 'en kwanX, literally “smoke + tube”). Compare modern Mandarin 煙管／烟管 (yānguǎn).

• (Tokyo) えんかん (Heiban – )^[2][4]
• IPA^(key):

煙(えん)管(かん) • (enkan) ^{←えんくわん (enkwan)?}

1. a fire tube or boiler tube in a steam engine: a pipe that conducts hot gasses from combustion to heat the boiler
2. a smokestack or chimney
3. a tobacco pipe with a metal stem (same as above; kiseru reading more common)

• (fire tube): ファイアチューブ (faia chūbu)
• (smokestack, chimney): 煙(えん)筒(とう) (entō), 煙(えん)突(とつ) (entotsu)

• 蒸気機関車の構成要素 on the Japanese Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^ja -- (fire tube): see #28 in the diagram
• Fire-tube boiler on Wikipedia.Wikipedia