Memory phrase (Mnemonic) for: 炼
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炼 |
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Meaning |
to smelt, to refine, to distill |
Pronunciation |
liàn |
Explanation |
Left: fire 火, right: east 东 (=東 The sun 日 rises behind a tree 木 in the east.) |
Mnemonic
| With fire and early in the morning [The sun is still behind the tree] we start smelting (the steel). |
Radicals
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火
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fire | (Also this radical 灬 stands for fire.) |
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東
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east | (In this radical the sun 日 rises behind a tree 木 in the east.) |
Tip: Go to the radicals that are contained in this character and learn all the characters with this radical systematically!
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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 |
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