練
liàn HSK2

practice

练 (練) liàn
practice verb
to practice, train, drill, or exercise to perfect a skill

他坚持每天练字，书法进步非常明显。

tā jiān​chí měi tiān liàn zì, shū​fǎ jìn​bù fēi​cháng míng​xiǎn.

He insists on practicing writing every day, and his calligraphy has improved significantly.

scour silk verb
to boil and scour raw silk to remove sericin and make it white and soft

这是将生丝练成熟丝的工艺。

zhè shì jiāng shēng​sī liàn chéng shú​sī de gōng​yì.

This is the process of degumming raw silk into finished silk.

white silk noun
white silk fabric, often used in a literary context

月光洒在地上，像一匹白练。

yuè​guāng sǎ zài dì​shang, xiàng yī pǐ bái liàn.

Moonlight spills onto the ground like a piece of white silk.

Frequency
Character
Written text
1,005th most common 160.0 per million
Movie subtitles
680th most common 194.8 per million appears in 43% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
32.0 per million appears in 10% of films
Written text
57.1 per million

Details
HSK 3.0
Level 2
Simplified
练
Strokes
15
Unicode
U+7DF4

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