I have encountered another sentence while translating some text of Japanese
history The sentence is:

> 人家の竈（かまど）から炊煙が立ち上っていないことに気づいて租税を免除します。 jinka no kamado kara 炊煙 ga
> tachiagatteinai koto ni kidzuite sozei wo menjo shimasu.

So I have these words:

> 人家 jinka
>
> 炊煙

I have problem with the meaning of jinka. Does this refer to houses and
buildings in that period of history? In case of 炊煙. As I found out 炊 taku
means cooking and 煙 kemu means fume and smoke. So Do I presume well if I think
they mean "fumes and smokes deriving from cooking"? And how can we pronounce
it?
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the reading of this kanji combination 炊煙 and meaning of 人家
As snailplane points out, you can find 炊煙{すいえん} in the dictionary. It's the
smoke that comes from cooking, presumably an older word since all the
definitions refer specifically to smoke from a かまど, but as your rather astute
skills of deduction have ascertained, it is in fact smoke from cooking.

人家 is not exclusively a historical word. It refers to houses where people live
and is used today.
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