人煙
simp人烟also written人菸jan4 jin1rén yān
English
- sign of human habitation
- sign of human activity; metaphor for number of households in a particular area
粵語 — Cantonese
- 住係嗰度嘅家庭
Examples
避開空氣污染嘅唯一方法就係喺啲杳無人煙嘅地方到住。
The only way to escape air pollution is to live in the middle of nowhere.
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呢條村人煙稀少,大部份原居民都去咗城市打工。
This village is sparsely populated, most indigenous people have migrated to cities to seek employment.
Sources: cc-cedict, rime-cantonese, words.hk