炼

liàn

“To refine” in Chinese is 炼 (liàn).

Other characters with the syllable lian: see all 12 →

Meaning

to refine
to smelt
variant of 鏈|链[lian4], chain

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variant of 煉|炼[lian4]

Example

爬山是锻炼的好方法。

It's good exercise to climb hills.

From 锻炼 · Example sentence from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0).

Stroke Order

9 strokes

Words containing 炼

锻炼duànliànto toughenHSK 4 提炼tíliànto extract (ore, minerals etc)HSK 7-9

More HSK 4 characters

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