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提炼

tí liàn

Old HSK 6 HSK 3.0 level 7-9 2-character word Traditional 提煉

提炼 (tí liàn) means "to extract (ore, minerals etc); to refine; to purify". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 提炼 means

1. to extract (ore, minerals etc)
2. to refine
3. to purify
4. to process

The characters in 提炼

• 提títo carry (hanging down from the hand); to lift; to put forward
• 炼liànto refine; to smelt

Example sentences

• 油是从橄榄中提炼出来的。
  Yóu shì cóng gǎnlǎn zhōng tíliàn chūlái de.
  Oil is extracted from olives.

Where 提炼 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 6 Vocabulary · táo–tí (HSK 6), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

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• Every HSK 6 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read tí liàn correctly.
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