炼
liàn HSK4

smelt

炼 煉 liàn frequency
to train verbnoun
To improve one's character, skills, or physical fitness through practice or experience; often confused with 练 liàn
to decoct
To boil down or decoct medicinal herbs or alchemical substances for a long time
炼 煉 liàn
variant 鍊
to refine verb
To heat a substance to remove impurities, extract a component, or strengthen it; to smelt, refine, or temper

棕榈油是怎样炼成的？

zōng​lǘ​yóu shì zěn​yàng liàn chéng de?

How is Palm Oil made?

to polish
To carefully polish or refine writing to make it concise and precise
surname
A Chinese surname
炼 鍊 liàn
chain
A series of metal links or cable connected together, such as a 铁链 tiě​liàn or 锁链 suǒ​liàn.
to chain
to fasten or restrain with a chain; to enchain
chain (unit)
a unit of length, either a nautical cable (approx. 185m) or a surveying chain (approx. 20m)

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Frequency
Character
Written text
1,763rd most common 49.2 per million
Movie subtitles
2,070th most common 17.4 per million appears in 9% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
1.88 per million appears in 1% of films
Written text
18.1 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 3
HSK 3.0
Level 4
Traditional
煉
Strokes
9
Unicode
U+70BC

Sources
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)