liàn

smelt metals

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
釒 meaning component

  Meaning component

jīn

  

metal

is a component form of .

柬 sound component

  Sound component

jiǎn

  

letter

Evolution

鍊 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
鍊 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

𫔀 () 

liàn

smelt metals, forge; refine

() 

liàn

variant of |[liàn], chain; variant of |[liàn]

Most common words with 鍊
Freq.
Word
Meaning

锻炼

to toughen

to refine

修炼

to practice asceticism

炼狱

purgatory

提炼

to refine