liàn
smelt metals
Phonosemantic compound. 釒 represents the meaning and 柬 represents the sound.
Evolution
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 鍊
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
to toughen | ||
to refine | ||
to practice asceticism | ||
purgatory | ||
to refine |
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*[r]ˤen-s | lenH | liàn | refine (metal) |
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 | 17 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+934A |
Shuowen | “鍊，冶金也。从金，柬聲。” |
Sources
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