煉

See also: 炼 and 鍊

Translingual

Japanese	煉
Simplified	炼
Traditional	煉

Han character

煉 (Kangxi radical 86, 火+9, 13 strokes, cangjie input 火木田火 (FDWF), four-corner 9589₆, composition ⿰火柬)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 676, character 4
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 19178
• Dae Jaweon: page 1087, character 9
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 2215, character 11
• Unihan data for U+7149

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Chinese

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 煉
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Small seal script

Characters in the same phonetic series (柬) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
蘭	*ɡ·raːn
攔	*ɡ·raːn
欄	*ɡ·raːn
瀾	*ɡ·raːn, *ɡ·raːns
讕	*ɡ·raːn, *ɡ·raːnʔ, *ɡ·raːns
闌	*ɡ·raːn
韊	*ɡ·raːn
幱	*ɡ·raːn
籣	*ɡ·raːn
躝	*ɡ·raːn
爛	*ɡ·raːns
爤	*ɡ·raːns
鑭	*ɡ·raːns
糷	*ɡ·raːns
斕	*ɡ·reːn
揀	*kreːnʔ, *ɡ·reːns
柬	*kreːnʔ
暕	*kreːnʔ
諫	*kraːns
練	*ɡ·reːns
鍊	*ɡ·reːns
煉	*ɡ·reːns
楝	*ɡ·reːns
萰	*ɡ·reːns
堜	*ɡ·reːns
湅	*ɡ·reːns

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *ɡ·reːns) : semantic 火 (“fire”) + phonetic 柬 (OC *kreːnʔ).

Definitions

For pronunciation and definitions of 煉 – see 鍊 (“to smelt; to refine; to measure; to polish; etc.”). (This character is a variant form of 鍊).

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Japanese

Kanji

煉

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

1. refine metals
2. kneading over fire

Readings

• Go-on: れん (ren)
• Kan-on: れん (ren)
• Kun: ねる (neru, 煉る)

Compounds

Compounds

• 煉瓦(れんが) (renga): brick
• 煉獄(れんごく) (rengoku): purgatory

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Korean

Hanja

煉 • (ryeon>yeon) (hangeul 련>연, revised ryeon>yeon, McCune–Reischauer ryŏn>yŏn, Yale lyen>yen)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(deprecated template usage) 煉 (luyện, rịn)

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