liàn
smelt
Phonosemantic compound. 火 represents the meaning and 柬 represents the sound.
Evolution
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)Regular script
ModernMost common words with 煉
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
to toughen | ||
to refine | ||
to practice asceticism | ||
purgatory | ||
to refine |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 8.8419% of movies
2070th most common character in movies
1763rd most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 13 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+7149 |
Shuowen | “煉，鑠治金也。从火，柬聲。” |
Sources
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