to refine / to smelt
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Frequency data: Cai & Brysbaert, SUBTLEX-CH (2010), Creative Commons Attribution. The data includes word forms with at least 10 occurrences in an older subtitle sample. It does not provide current frequency or HSK levels. Absence from the sample does not establish that a word is rare. Names, variants and restricted readings identified in the source appear after general-use entries within the same match type.
variant of 鏈|链[], chain
to toughen / to temper / to engage in physical exercise / to work out / (fig.) to develop one's skills / to train oneself
purgatory
oil refinery
alchemy
to extract (ore, minerals etc) / to refine / to purify / to process
to refine (a substance) / to purify / to refine (one's skills, writing etc) / refined / polished / succinct / skilled / capable
(of Taoists) to practice austerities / to practice asceticism
to concoct pills of immortality
maker of immortality pill / concocting magic pills
to spend a long time thinking about sth while unable to reach a decision
to condense milk (by evaporation) / condensed milk
to refine / refining (e.g. oil, chemicals etc)
to polish a phrase
condensed milk
to craft one's words
to refine crude oil / to render animal fat
coking / the process of producing coke from coal
coking furnace
a delicacy (food)
(chemistry) to refine
alchemist
to make steel / steelmaking
steel mill
smelting iron
iron foundry
to smelt metal
a furnace for smelting metal
after hard work and numerous revisions (idiom) / the vicissitudes of life
(fig.) to temper / to forge / to toughen (through hardship or repeated trials)
to parch and refine medicinal herbs
to smelt
to be tempered into a steel
high-grade well-tempered steel
True gold fears no fire. (idiom)
refinery
to refine with fire
to forge (metal) / (fig.) to toughen sb up / to hone (one's skills)
physical exercise
Definitions from CC-CEDICT · 125,326 source records · Release 2026-10-27