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Hanzi Character Search: 炼

70BC

炼
smelt, refine; distill, condense
Radical
Strokes (without radical) 5 Total Strokes 9
Mandarin reading liàn Cantonese reading lin6
Japanese on reading Japanese kun reading
Korean reading Vietnamese reading
Traditional Variant(s) smelt, refine; distill, condense

CEDICT Entries:

   [ liàn ]    to refine, to smelt
   [ liàn dān ]    to concoct pills of immortality
   [ liàn dān guà ]    eight trigrams furnace to cook pills of immortality, symbol of the alchemist's art, Double, double toil and trouble, Fire burn, and cauldron bubble
   [ liàn dān shù ]    maker of immortality pill, concocting magic pills
   [ liàn zhī weì dìng ]    to spend a long time thinking about sth while unable to reach a decision
   [ liàn ]    to condense milk (by evaporation), condensed milk
   [ liàn huà ]    to refine, refining (e.g. oil, chemicals etc)
   [ liàn ]    to polish a phrase
   [ liàn naǐ ]    condensed milk
   [ liàn ]    to craft one's words
   [ liàn yoú ]    oil refinery
   [ liàn yoú chǎng ]    oil refinery
   [ liàn ]    coking, the process of producing coke from coal
   [ liàn ]    coking furnace
   [ liàn ]    purgatory
   [ liàn zhēn ]    a delicacy (food)
   [ liàn zhì ]    (chemistry) to refine
   [ liàn jīn shù ]    alchemy
   [ liàn jīn shù shì ]    alchemist
   [ liàn gāng ]    steelmaking
   [ liàn gāng chǎng ]    steel mill
   [ liàn tiě ]    smelting iron
   [ liàn tiě chǎng ]    iron foundry
   [ liàn ]    variant of 鏈|链[lian4], chain, variant of 煉|炼[lian4]
⇒    [ xiū liàn ]    (of Taoists) to practice austerities, to practice asceticism
⇒    [ xiū liàn chéng xiān ]    lit. to practice austerities to become a Daoist immortal, practice makes perfect
⇒    [ liàn ]    to smelt metal
⇒    [ liàn ]    a furnace for smelting metal
⇒    [ níng liàn ]    variant of 凝練|凝练[ning2 lian4]
⇒    [ qiān chuí baǐ liàn ]    after hard work and numerous revisions (idiom), the vicissitudes of life
⇒    [ liàn ]    to extract (ore, minerals etc), to refine, to purify, to process
⇒    [ liàn ]    variant of 洗練|洗练[xi3 lian4]
⇒    [ paó liàn ]    to parch and refine medicinal herbs
⇒    [ duàn liàn ]    to forge, to toughen, to temper
⇒    [ róng liàn ]    to smelt
⇒    [ baǐ liàn chéng gāng ]    to be tempered into a steel
⇒    [ baǐ liàn gāng ]    high-grade well-tempered steel
⇒    [ zhēn jīn huǒ liàn ]    True gold fears no fire. (idiom)
⇒    [ liàn ]    see 磨練|磨练[mo2 lian4]
⇒    [ jiǎn liàn ]    variant of 簡練|简练[jian3 lian4]
⇒    [ jīng liàn ]    to refine (a substance), to purify, to refine (one's skills, writing etc), refined, polished, succinct, skilled, capable
⇒    [ jīng liàn chǎng ]    refinery (of oil etc)
⇒    [ shì liàn ]    to refine with fire
⇒    [ duàn liàn ]    to toughen, to temper, to engage in physical exercise, to work out, (fig.) to develop one's skills, to train oneself
⇒    [ duàn liàn ]    physical exercise

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