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湅

liàn

Character

What 湅 means

1. to boil raw silk (to soften and clean it)

Sounds the same

Read liàn, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 练to practice; to train; to drill
• 炼to refine; to smelt
• 链chain; cable (unit of length: 100 fathoms, about 185 m)…
• 恋to feel attached to; to long for; to love
• 楝Melia japonica
• 殓to prepare a dead body for coffin
• 潋full of water; trough
• 澰(literary) to moisten; to wet; to soak in water
• 萰Ampelopsis japonica (creeper with root used in TCM); same as 白蔹
• 敛variant of 殓