炼丹 liàndān to concoct pills of immortality Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents 炼丹 煉丹 liàn//dān to concoct pills of immortality Ancient alchemy practiced by Daoists involving the refining of minerals like cinnabar in a furnace to create elixirs for eternal life to practice internal alchemy The internal cultivation of essence (jing), breath (qi), and spirit (shen) through meditation and mental techniques to prepare medicinal pellets In traditional Chinese medicine, the process of refining mineral ores into medicinal pellets to treat various ailments Frequency Movie subtitles 0.090 per million appears in 0% of films Written text 1.24 per million Cross-References Synonym 炼金术 liànjīnshù Sources Frequency data SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)
炼丹 煉丹 liàn//dān to concoct pills of immortality Ancient alchemy practiced by Daoists involving the refining of minerals like cinnabar in a furnace to create elixirs for eternal life to practice internal alchemy The internal cultivation of essence (jing), breath (qi), and spirit (shen) through meditation and mental techniques to prepare medicinal pellets In traditional Chinese medicine, the process of refining mineral ores into medicinal pellets to treat various ailments Frequency Movie subtitles 0.090 per million appears in 0% of films Written text 1.24 per million Cross-References Synonym 炼金术 liànjīnshù Sources Frequency data SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)
