煉丹

Chinese

		refine; smelt	red; pellet; powder red; pellet; powder; cinnabar
trad. (煉丹/鍊丹)		煉/鍊	丹
simp. (炼丹)		炼	丹

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): liàndān

  (Zhuyin): ㄌㄧㄢˋ ㄉㄢ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): lin⁶ daan¹
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): liān-tan

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: liàndān
    • Zhuyin: ㄌㄧㄢˋ ㄉㄢ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: liàndan
    • Wade–Giles: lien⁴-tan¹
    • Yale: lyàn-dān
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: lianndan
    • Palladius: ляньдань (ljanʹdanʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /li̯ɛn⁵¹ tän⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: lin⁶ daan¹
    • Yale: lihn dāan
    • Cantonese Pinyin: lin⁶ daan¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: lin⁶ dan¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /liːn²² taːn⁵⁵/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: liān-tan
    • Tâi-lô: liān-tan
    • Phofsit Daibuun: liexndafn
    • IPA (Xiamen): /liɛn²²⁻²¹ tan⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /liɛn⁴¹⁻²² tan³³/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /liɛn²²⁻²¹ tan⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Taipei): /liɛn³³⁻¹¹ tan⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /liɛn³³⁻²¹ tan⁴⁴/

Verb

煉丹

1. (Taoism, historical) to concoct pills of immortality

Derived terms

• 煉丹子／炼丹子
• 煉丹術／炼丹术 (liàndānshù)