練

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See also: 练, 煉, and 鍊
練 U+7DF4, 練
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-7DF4
← 緳
 		CJK Unified Ideographs 緵 →

練 U+F996, 練
CJK COMPATIBILITY IDEOGRAPH-F996
← 秊
 		CJK Compatibility Ideographs 聯 →
練 U+FA57, 練
CJK COMPATIBILITY IDEOGRAPH-FA57
← 節
 		CJK Compatibility Ideographs 縉 →
練 U+FAB0, 練
CJK COMPATIBILITY IDEOGRAPH-FAB0
← 絛
 		CJK Compatibility Ideographs 缾 →

Translingual

Traditional 練
Simplified 练
Japanese 練
Korean 練

Alternative forms

Han character

練 (Kangxi radical 120, 糸+9 in Chinese and Korean, 糸+8 in Japanese, 15 strokes in Chinese and Korean, 14 strokes in Japanese, cangjie input 女火木田火 (VFDWF), four-corner 25996, composition ⿰糹柬 or ⿰糹東)

Derived characters

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 932, character 4
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 27631
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1370, character 16
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3424, character 2
  • Unihan data for U+7DF4

Chinese

trad. 練
simp. 练
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Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 練
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series (柬) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
蘭 *ɡ·raːn
攔 *ɡ·raːn
欄 *ɡ·raːn
瀾 *ɡ·raːn, *ɡ·raːns
讕 *ɡ·raːn, *ɡ·raːnʔ, *ɡ·raːns
闌 *ɡ·raːn
韊 *ɡ·raːn
幱 *ɡ·raːn
籣 *ɡ·raːn
躝 *ɡ·raːn
爛 *ɡ·raːns
爤 *ɡ·raːns
鑭 *ɡ·raːns
糷 *ɡ·raːns
斕 *ɡ·reːn
揀 *kreːnʔ, *ɡ·reːns
柬 *kreːnʔ
暕 *kreːnʔ
諫 *kraːns
練 *ɡ·reːns
鍊 *ɡ·reːns
煉 *ɡ·reːns
楝 *ɡ·reːns
萰 *ɡ·reːns
堜 *ɡ·reːns
湅 *ɡ·reːns

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *ɡ·reːns) : semantic 糸 (“silk”) + phonetic 柬 (OC *kreːnʔ).

Pronunciation

Note:
  • liang7 - Shantou;
  • liêng7 - Chaozhou.
Rime
Character 練
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 來 (37)
Final (韻) 先 (85)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) IV
Fanqie 郎甸切
Baxter lenH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/lenH/
Pan
Wuyun 		/lenH/
Shao
Rongfen 		/lɛnH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/lɛnH/
Li
Rong 		/lenH/
Wang
Li 		/lienH/
Bernard
Karlgren 		/lienH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		liàn
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		lin6
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 練
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		liàn
Middle
Chinese 		‹ lenH ›
Old
Chinese 		/*ˁen-s/
English sized white silk

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. * as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 練
Reading # 1/1
No. 6141
Phonetic
component 		柬
Rime
group 		元
Rime
subdivision 		2
Corresponding
MC rime 		練
Old
Chinese 		/*ɡ·reːns/

Definitions

練

  1. (literary) white silk
  2. (literary) to boil and scour raw silk
  3. to practice; to drill; to exercise; to train
    練鋼琴／练钢琴  ―  liàn gāngqín  ―  to practise the piano
    練腹肌／练腹肌  ―  liàn fùjī  ―  to train one's rectus abdominis
  4. experienced; familiar
    老練／老练  ―  lǎoliàn  ―  experienced; seasoned
  5. a surname

Compounds

Japanese

Shinjitai 練
Kyūjitai
[1]
練
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or
練+&#xFE01;?
練󠄀
練+&#xE0100;?
(Adobe-Japan1)
練󠄃
練+&#xE0103;?
(Hanyo-Denshi)
(Moji_Joho)
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Kanji

練

(Third grade kyōiku kanji, shinjitai kanji, kyūjitai form 練)

  1. to practice, to train, to drill
  2. to polish, to gloss
  3. to refine

Readings

Compounds

Compounds

References

  1. ^ “練”, in 漢字ぺディア [Kanjipedia]‎ (in Japanese), The Japan Kanji Aptitude Testing Foundation, 2015–2024

Korean

Hanja

練 (eumhun 익힐 련 (ikhil ryeon), word-initial (South Korea) 익힐 연 (ikhil yeon))

  1. hanja form? of 련/연 (“practice”)

Compounds

Vietnamese

Han character

練: Hán Nôm readings: luyện, lén, lẹn, rén, rịn

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