练
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to practice; to train; to drill; to perfect (one's skill); exercise; (literary) white silk; to boil and scour raw silk
- HSK 3.0
- Level 2
- Old HSK
- Level 3
- Strokes
- 8
- Radical
- 糸 +5
- Structure
- Left–right 左右
- Traditional
- 練
- Common rank
- #1,366
- Unicode
- U+7EC3
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Formation & memory
Break the character into parts you already know.
How to remember it
practice · Heisig RSH #1251
thread + rickshaw
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Words with 练
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 光说不练 | all talk and no action (idiom); to preach what one does not practice; same as 光說不做|光说不做[gu… | |
| 教练机 | trainer (aircraft) | |
| 熟练工人 | skilled worker; journeyman | |
| 教练员 | sports coach; training personnel | |
| 拉练 | (military) to undergo field training (camping, bivouacking, route marching, live fire prac… | |
| 练手 | to practice a skill | |
| 语言训练 | language training | |
| 精讲多练 | a teaching strategy combining a concise explanation of essential concepts with frequent pr… | |
| 军事训练 | military exercise; army drill | |
| 重量训练 | weight training (Tw) | |
| 老练 | seasoned; experienced | |
| 勤学苦练 | to study diligently; to train assiduously | |
| 练字 | to practice writing characters | |
| 熟练工 | skilled worker; journeyman | |
| 教练 | to coach; to train; instructor; sports coach; trainer (CL:位[wei4],名[ming2]) | |
| 练达 | experienced; sophisticated; worldly-wise | |
| 练习生 | (dated, except in Taiwan) trainee; apprentice; probationary employee; (entertainment) trai… | |
| 干练 | capable and experienced | |
| 精练 | (textiles) to scour; to degum (silk); variant of 精煉|精炼[jing1 lian4] | |
| 半熟练 | semiskilled |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 柬 — compare how they read.