Chinese Character Wiki

錬

liàn

smelt metals

Evolution

錬 Bronze script Mid Western Zhou (~900 BC)

Bronze script

Mid Western Zhou (~900 BC)
錬 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
錬 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
Definitions

錬  

liàn

smelt metals; Japanese variant of 煉|炼[liàn]

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Miscellaneous

Strokes

16

Unicode

U+932C

Shuowen

“鐘，樂鐘也。秋分之音，物穜成。从金，童聲。古者垂作鐘。銿，鐘或从甬。”


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