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Chinese
Pronunciation
Noun
狼煙
- smoke from the wolf dung burnt to signal warfare; fire beacon; smoke signal
- (figurative) war; flames of war
Japanese
Etymology 1
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狼烟
烽火
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The kanji spelling is an orthographic borrowing from Chinese 狼煙 / 狼烟 (lángyān, literally “wolf smoke”), supposedly derived from the use in China of wolves' droppings in signal fires.
Pronunciation
Noun
狼煙 • (noroshi)
- smoke signal, skyrocket, signal fire, beacon
Etymology 2
Learned borrowing from Chinese 狼煙 / 狼烟 (lángyān)
Pronunciation
Noun
狼煙 • (rōen)
- signal fire, beacon
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