Memory phrase for the Kanji: 炼


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Meaning to smelt, to refine, to distill

Pronunciation

liàn

Explanation

Left: fire , right: east 东/ (= The sun rises behind a tree in the east.)

Mnemonic


 
With fire and early in the morning [The sun is still behind the tree] we start smelting (the steel).

Radicals

fireAlso this radical stands for fire.
eastIn this radical, the sun rises behind a tree in the east. The radical has been simplified to 东. In some characters, such as 拣, there is an additional short horizontal line. For reasons of simplicity, this is nevertheless also understood as "east".
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 Vocabulary

 炼钢  liàn gāng  steel making
 锻炼  duàn liàn  to engage in physical exercise; to work out; to toughen; to temper
 熔炼  róng liàn  to smelt
 冶炼  yě liàn  to smelt metal
 炼丹八卦炉  liàn dān bā guà lú  eight trigrams furnace to cook pills of immortality; symbol of the alchemist's art; Double, double toil and trouble, Fire burn, and cauldron bubble
 炼丹八卦炉  liàn dān bā guà lú  


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