煉

test; trial; ordeal; tribulation

Transitive verb

to knead; to thicken into a paste (stirring over a flame)

Transitive verb

to polish (a plan, etc.); to refine; to elaborate; to work out

Transitive verb

to train; to drill; to exercise

Transitive verb

to gloss (silk); to soften; to degum

Transitive verb

to tan (leather)

Transitive verb

to temper (steel)

Intransitive verb

to walk in procession; to parade; to march

refinement; polish

training; drill; practice; practising; discipline

brick

Christianity

purgatory

to knead well

to polish; to refine

refining; refinement; smelting

精錬／精煉 only

training

Noun, used as a suffix

kneading; gloss; tempering

Noun or verb acting prenominally

paste (e.g. bean paste, mustard paste)

Shinto; Orig. 邌り, usu. お練り

parading of portable shrines and floats at festivals

red brick

condensed milk

briquette (charcoal or coal)

Food, cooking

paste products (incl. sweets, fish paste, etc.)

parade float; procession

paste bird feed

paste fishing bait

mud and tile wall topped with tiles

art of making elixirs (e.g. in Chinese trad. medicine); alchemy

(incense) pastille; round cake of incense, esp. used in incense ceremony

muddy colored lipstick or rouge

elixir of life (prepared from cinnabar in ancient China)

wooden block

boiled pine pitch and oil (traditionally used as a glue in archery, etc.)

to be well-kneaded

to be seasoned; to be experienced; to be mature and well-rounded

rammed earth; pisé (de terre)

paste (for making pottery)

brickwork