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
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- 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
- 第五十三回 Chapter 53 Water Margin 水滸傳 — count: 2
- 第五十二回 Chapter 52 The Scholars 儒林外史 — count: 1
- 卷一百零四 列傳第二十九 于志寧曾孫:休烈 四世孫:敖 五世孫:琮 高季輔 張行成族子:張易之 張昌宗 Volume 104 Biographies 29: Yu Zhining great-grandson: Xiu Lie, fourth generation descendent Ao, fifth generation descendent Cong, Gao Jifu, Zhang Xingcheng: descendent: Zhang Yizi, Zhang Changzong New Book of Tang 新唐書 — 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
- 卷七十二 列傳第四十二 郭璞 葛洪 Volume 72 Biographies 42: Guo Pu; Ge Hong Book of Jin 晉書 — count: 1
- 卷五十一 唐書27: 宗室列傳三 Volume 51 Book of Later Tang 27: Biographies 3 - Imperial Family Old History of the Five Dynasties 舊五代史 — count: 1
- 卷八十五 志第三十八 地理一 Volume 85 Treatises 38: Geography 1 History of Song 宋史 — 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
- 第二十一回 Chapter 21 Journey to the West 西遊記 — count: 1
Collocations
- 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
- 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
- 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