炼 (煉) liàn
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liàn
verb
to smelt
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Metallurgy
Notes: (Guoyu '煉' v 1; Unihan '煉'; XHZD '炼' 1) -
liàn
verb
to refine; to distill; to condense
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: (Guoyu '煉' v 2; Unihan '煉'; XHZD '炼' 3) -
liàn
verb
to choose the right words
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: (XHZD '炼' 2) -
liàn
verb
to heat; to burn
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: (Guoyu '煉' v 3)
Contained in
- 炼铁厂(煉鐵廠) iron foundry
- 炼制(煉製) to refine
- 熬炼(熬煉) to boil and smelt
- 炼石补天(煉石補天) fashionging blocks of stones, for the repair of the heavens
- 锻炼(鍛鍊) to train; to do physical exercise ; to temper [metal] ; to frame with a crimal offense
- 提炼(提煉) to refine
- 炼焦(煉焦) coking; the process of producing coke from coal
- 精炼厂(精煉廠) refinery (of oil etc)
- 煅炼(煅煉) to forge; to toughen; to temper
- 修炼成仙(修煉成仙) to practice austerities to become a Daoist immortal; practice makes perfect
- 炼油厂(煉油廠) oil refinery
- 炼钢厂(煉鋼廠) steel mill
- 体育锻炼(體育鍛煉) physical exercise
- 炼珍(煉珍) a delicacy (food)
- 试炼(試煉) to refine with fire
- 炼金术(煉金術) alchemy
- 炼金术士(煉金術士) alchemist
- 修炼(修煉) to cultivate; to practice austerities
- 炼狱(煉獄) purgatory
- 百炼钢(百煉鋼) high-grade well-tempered steel
- 炼乳(煉乳) to condense milk (by evaporation); condensed milk
- 千锤百炼(千錘百煉) to be tried and tested; to be honed and polished ; after hard work and numerous revisions; the vicissitudes of life
- 冶炼(冶煉) to smelt
- 真金不怕火炼(真金不怕火煉) True gold fears no fire.
- 洗炼(洗煉) agile; nimble; deft
- 炼字(煉字) to craft one's words
- 磨炼(磨煉) to temper oneself; to steel oneself
- 炼钢(煉鋼) steelmaking
- 炼铁(煉鐵) smelting iron
- 炼油(煉油) oil refinery
- 炼之未定(煉之未定) to spend a long time thinking about something while unable to reach a decision
- 炮炼(炮煉) to parch and refine medicinal herbs
- 熔炼(熔煉) to smelt
- 炼焦炉(煉焦爐) coking furnace
- 冶炼炉(冶煉爐) a furnace for smelting metal
- 百炼成钢(百煉成鋼) to be tempered into a steel
- 炼丹(煉丹) to concoct pills of immortality
- 炼丹八卦炉(煉丹八卦爐) eight trigrams furnace to cook pills of immortality; symbol of the alchemist's art
- 精炼(精煉) to smelt ; to refine
- 炼丹术(煉丹術) maker of immortality pill; concocting magic pills
- 炼奶(煉奶) condensed milk
- 炼句(煉句) to polish a phrase
- 炼化(煉化) to refine; refining (e.g. oil, chemicals etc)
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- 卷二百〇九 列傳第九十七 楊最 馮恩 楊爵 周怡 劉魁 沈束 沈鍊 楊繼盛 楊允繩 Volume 209 Biographies 97: Yang Zui, Feng En, Yang Jue, Zhou Yi, Liu Kui, Shen Shu, Shen Lian, Yang Jicheng, Yang Yunsheng History of Ming 明史 — count: 27
- 卷四 墜形訓 Chapter 4: Terrestrial Forms Huainanzi 淮南子 — count: 10
- 第七回 Chapter 7 Journey to the West 西遊記 — count: 8
- 卷二百〇五 志第一百五十八 藝文四 Volume 205 Treatises 158: Arts and Literature 4 History of Song 宋史 — count: 7
- 卷九十四 志第四十三: 食貨二 Volume 94 Treatises 47: Finance and Economics 2 History of Yuan 元史 — count: 6
- 第七十三回 Chapter 73 Journey to the West 西遊記 — count: 5
- 卷一百四十六 志8: 食貨志 Volume 146: Treatises 8 Finance and Economics Old History of the Five Dynasties 舊五代史 — count: 5
- 卷五十九 志第四十九 藝文三 Volume 59 Treatises 55: The Arts 3 New Book of Tang 新唐書 — count: 4
- 第五十二回 Chapter 52 Journey to the West 西遊記 — count: 4
- 卷三百〇七 列傳第一百九十五 佞倖 紀綱 門達 李孜省 繼曉 江彬 錢寧 陸炳 邵元節 陶仲文 顧可學 Volume 307 Biographies 195: Flatter and Imitation - Ji Gang, Men Da, Li Zisheng, Ji Xiao, Jiang Bin, Qian Ning, Lu Bing, Shao Yuanjie, Tao Zhongwen, Gu Kexue History of Ming 明史 — count: 4
Collocations
- 锻炼 (鍛煉) 則鍛煉而周內之 — Garden of Stories 說苑, 卷五 貴德 Chapter 5: Valuing Virtue — count: 22
- 合炼 (合煉) 中官合煉醮祭 — Old Book of Tang 舊唐書, 卷二十四 志第四: 禮儀四 Volume 24 Treatises 4: Rites 4 — count: 9
- 百炼 (百煉) 百煉不耗 — Book of Jin 晉書, 卷二十五 志第十五 輿服 Volume 25 Treatises 15: Travel and Dress — count: 7
- 煎炼 (煎煉) 一任人戶煎煉 — Old History of the Five Dynasties 舊五代史, 卷一百十六 周書7: 世宗本紀三 Volume 116 Book of Later Zhou 18: Shizong Annals 3 — count: 6
- 烧炼 (燒煉) 加燒煉則火毒難制 — Old Book of Tang 舊唐書, 卷十五 本紀第十五: 憲宗下 Volume 15 Annals 15: Xianzong 2 — count: 5
- 炼盐 (煉鹽) 即委本處煎煉鹽數 — Old History of the Five Dynasties 舊五代史, 卷一百四十六 志8: 食貨志 Volume 146: Treatises 8 Finance and Economics — count: 3
- 炼真 (煉真) 大洞煉真寶經脩伏丹砂妙訣 — New Book of Tang 新唐書, 卷五十九 志第四十九 藝文三 Volume 59 Treatises 55: The Arts 3 — count: 3
- 子炼 (子煉) 子煉嗣 — New Book of Tang 新唐書, 卷七十九 列傳第四 高祖諸子 Volume 79 Biographies 4: Sons of Gaozu — count: 2
- 炼成 (煉成) 三煉成銅 — History of Song 宋史, 卷一百八十 志第一百三十三 食貨下二 Volume 180 Treatises 133: Finance and Economics 2b — count: 2
- 采炼 (采煉) 采煉大獲 — History of Song 宋史, 卷一百八十五 志第一百三十八 食貨下七 Volume 185 Treatises 138: Finance and Economics 2g — count: 2