炼liàn
to smelt, to refine; to distill, to condense. 9 strokes, radical 火, first met in HSK 4.
Pinyin liànStrokes 9Radical 火Band HSK 4Words 1
How to write 炼
Strokes 1–4 write 火, then strokes 5–9 write 柬.
Free, with no account: the app draws each stroke, then you write it and it says which stroke went wrong.
Print a 米字格 practice sheet for 炼 · the stroke-order rules
What 炼 is made of
火 (huǒ, fire) and 柬 (jiǎn, card).
火 carries the meaning — fire — and 柬 carries the sound.
Words that use 炼
| 锻炼 | to exercise 通过运动使身体更强壮 她坚持每天爬楼梯锻炼。She climbs the stairs every day to exercise. Lesson 272, 强身健体与自立品格 · 邻里温情与冬景市声 · Winter Rhythms, Urban Transit & Neighborly Harmony |
Characters that share the sound part 柬
Written with the same phonetic, so their readings tend to rhyme with each other.
More characters with the radical 火
All 19 of them, and what the radical means, on the 火 radical page.