炼丹 (煉丹) liàndān
liàndān
verb
to concoct pills of immortality
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
, Subdomain: Mythology
Notes: (CC-CEDICT '煉丹')
Contained in
- 炼丹八卦炉(煉丹八卦爐) eight trigrams furnace to cook pills of immortality; symbol of the alchemist's art
- 炼丹术(煉丹術) maker of immortality pill; concocting magic pills
Word is mentioned most frequently in
Truncated for common words
- 第五十三回 Chapter 53 Water Margin 水滸傳 — count: 2
- 卷三十九 雜傳第二十七: 王鎔 羅紹威 王處直 劉守光 Volume 39 Miscellaneous Biographies 19: Wang Rong, Luo Shaowei, Wang Chuzhi, Liu Shouguang New History of the Five Dynasties 新五代史 — count: 2
- 第六十九回 Chapter 69 Journey to the West 西遊記 — count: 1
- 第四十六回 Chapter 46 Journey to the West 西遊記 — count: 1
- 卷四十 志第十: 地理志四 Volume 40 Treatises 10: Geography 4 History of Liao 遼史 — count: 1
- 第二十一回 Chapter 21 Journey to the West 西遊記 — count: 1
- 卷六十三 前蜀世家第三: 王建 Volume 63: Hereditary House of Former Shu New History of the Five Dynasties 新五代史 — count: 1
- 卷三百二十九 列傳第八十八 常秩 鄧綰 李定 舒亶 蹇周輔 徐鐸 王廣淵 王陶 王子韶 何正臣 陳繹 Volume 329 Biographies 88: Chang Zhi, Deng Wan, Li Ding, Shu Dan, Jian Zhoufu, Xu Duo, Wang Guangyuan, Wang Tao, Wang Zishao, He Zhengchen, Chen Yi History of Song 宋史 — count: 1
- 卷四 Scroll 4 Wenxuan 文選 — count: 1
- 卷一百八十八 列傳第七十六 劉荡 呂翀 鄄洍 趙佑 戴銑 陸崑 蔣欽 周璽 湯禮敬 許天錫 徐文溥 張士隆 張文明 范輅 張欽 周廣 石天柱 Volume 188 Biographies 76: Liu Dang, Lu Chong, Juan Si, Zhao You, Dai Xian, Lu Kun, Jiang Qin, Zhou Xi, Tang Lijing, Xu Tianxi, Xu Wenpu, Zhang Shilong, Zhang Wenming, Fan Lu, Zhang Qin, Zhou Guang, Shi Tianzhu History of Ming 明史 — count: 1
Collocations
- 炼丹炉 (煉丹爐) 老君難顧煉丹爐 — Journey to the West 西遊記, 第二十一回 Chapter 21 — count: 3
- 炼丹药 (煉丹藥) 煉丹藥 — New History of the Five Dynasties 新五代史, 卷三十九 雜傳第二十七: 王鎔 羅紹威 王處直 劉守光 Volume 39 Miscellaneous Biographies 19: Wang Rong, Luo Shaowei, Wang Chuzhi, Liu Shouguang — count: 3
- 在炼丹 (在煉丹) 放在煉丹爐裡 — Journey to the West 西遊記, 第二十五回 Chapter 25 — count: 2