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外丹术
wài​dān​shù

outer alchemy

Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents
  1. 外丹 wài​dān
    external alchemy
    Daoist practice of using furnaces and crucibles to refine minerals such as lead and mercury into elixirs of immortality
  2. 术 術 shù noun
    skill
    (bound form) skill; technique; method; tactics