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HSK
to toughen / to temper / to engage in physical exercise / to work out / (fig.) to develop one's skills / to train oneself
HSK 4
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *炼* | 炼* | *炼
to refine / to smelt
HSK 7-9
to extract (ore, minerals etc) / to refine / to purify / to process
HSK 7-9
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *炼* | 炼* | *炼
variant of 鏈|链, chain / variant of 煉|炼
HSK 7-9
(of Taoists) to practice austerities / to practice asceticism
to refine (a substance) / to purify / to refine (one's skills, writing etc) / refined / polished / succinct / skilled / capable
iron foundry
to smelt metal
to refine with fire
to make steel / steelmaking
to concoct pills of immortality
to smelt
to refine / refining (e.g. oil, chemicals etc)
coking / the process of producing coke from coal
after hard work and numerous revisions (idiom) / the vicissitudes of life
smelting iron
oil refinery
to be tempered into a steel
to condense milk (by evaporation) / condensed milk
(chemistry) to refine
True gold fears no fire. (idiom)
to craft one's words
to polish a phrase
variant of 磨練|磨练
condensed milk
alchemy
oil refinery
a delicacy (food)
physical exercise
to parch and refine medicinal herbs
alchemist
variant of 凝練|凝练
lit. to practice austerities to become a Daoist immortal / practice makes perfect
variant of 洗練|洗练
a furnace for smelting metal
maker of immortality pill / concocting magic pills
to spend a long time thinking about sth while unable to reach a decision
coking furnace
purgatory
steel mill
high-grade well-tempered steel
variant of 簡練|简练
refinery (of oil etc)


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