練

Alternative forms

• Note the difference in the right-side component between traditional Chinese (柬) and Japanese shinjitai (東).
• Three CJK compatibility ideographs exists for this code point. Among them, U+FA57 corresponds to the Japanese kyūjitai form of this character.

Han character

練 (radical 120 糸+9 in Chinese, 糸+8 in Japanese, in Chinese 15 strokes, in Japanese 14 strokes, cangjie input 女火木田火 (VFDWF), four-corner 2599₆, composition ⿰糹柬(GHTV) or ⿰糸東(J or U+FAB0) or ⿰糸柬(K or U+F996 or U+FA57))

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 練
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Small seal script

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

Pronunciation

Definitions

練

1. ^† white silk
2. ^† to boil and scour raw silk
3. to practice; to drill; to exercise; to train
4. experienced; familiar
5. A surname​.

Compounds

Kanji

(grade 3 “Kyōiku” kanji)

1. practice
2. gloss
3. train
4. drill
5. polish
6. refine

Hanja

練 • (ryeon, yeon) (hangeul 련, 연, revised ryeon, yeon, McCune–Reischauer ryŏn, yŏn, Yale lyen, yen)

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Han character

練 (luyện, lén, lẹn, rén, rịn)

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