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Mythic Mandarin

锻炼 (duàn liàn): meaning and stroke order

锻炼 (duàn liàn) means to toughen, to temper, to engage in physical exercise, to work out.

锻炼

Simplified
锻炼
Traditional
鍛鍊
Pinyin
duàn liàn

Stroke order of 锻炼

锻

  • duàn to forge; to discipline
  • 14 strokes
  • Traditional form: 鍛

Stroke by stroke

炼

  • liàn to refine; to smelt
  • liàn variant of 鏈|链[lian4], chain; variant of 煉|炼[lian4]
  • 9 strokes
  • Traditional form: 煉

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 锻炼

  1. duàn liàn Traditional 鍛鍊
    • to toughen
    • to temper
    • to engage in physical exercise
    • to work out
    • (fig.) to develop one's skills
    • to train oneself

Radicals of the characters

锻
Radical 钅 (Kangxi radical 167) in its simplified form · 14 strokes · 钅 on the left, 段 on the right
炼
Radical 火 (Kangxi radical 86) · 9 strokes · 火 on the left, 𫠣 on the right

Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan database. Structure: the shapes a character is written with (BabelStone IDS), not necessarily parts that carry meaning or sound.

Dictionary data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Stroke data: Hanzi Writer data, derived from Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License). Animation: Hanzi Writer (MIT licence). Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan (Unicode License v3).