liàn
smelt
Phonosemantic compound. 火 represents the meaning and 柬 represents the sound. Simplified form of 煉.
Components
Evolution
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)Traditional script
ModernSimplified script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 炼
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
to toughen | ||
to refine | ||
to practice asceticism | ||
purgatory | ||
to refine |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 8.8419% of movies
2070th most common character in movies
1763rd most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 9 |
Traditional | |
Unicode | U+70BC |
Sources
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