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锻

duàn

Old HSK 3 HSK 3.0 character level 3 Character Traditional 鍛

What 锻 means

1. to forge
2. to discipline
3. wrought

Example sentences

• 你还锻炼吗？
  Do you still work out?
• 游泳锻炼肌肉。
  Swimming develops your muscles.
• 我需要更经常地锻炼。
  Wǒ xūyào gèng jīngcháng de duànliàn.
  I need to exercise more often.
• 爬山是锻炼的好方法。
  Páshān shì duànliàn de hǎo fāngfǎ.
  It's good exercise to climb hills.
• 她锻炼时扭伤了脚踝。
  Tā duànliàn shí niǔ shāng le jiǎohuái.
  She twisted her ankle while she was doing exercise.
• 我儿子正在锻炼上厕所。
  My son is being toilet trained.

Words starting with 锻

• 锻炼duàn liànto toughen; to temper; to engage in physical exercise
• 锻造duàn zàoto forge (metal); forging
• 锻铁duàn tiěwrought iron

Words containing 锻

• 体育锻炼tǐ yù duàn liànphysical exercise

Characters built on 段

These share the phonetic component 段 (duàn), which is why their readings rhyme. Learning them as a family is far cheaper than learning them one at a time.

• 缎duànsatin
• 煅duànto calcine; variant of 锻
• 椴duànChinese linden (Tilia chinensis)

Characters that look like 锻

Easy to confuse on sight. Compare them side by side once and the pair stops costing you.

• 错cuòmistake; wrong; bad
• 锚máoanchor
• 锢gùobstinate disease; to restrain; to stop
• 锹qiāoshovel; spade
• 锲qièto cut; to carve; to engrave
• 锗zhěgermanium (chemistry)

Sounds the same

Read duàn, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 段paragraph; section; segment
• 断to break; to snap; to cut off
• 缎satin
• 煅to calcine; variant of 锻
• 椴Chinese linden (Tilia chinensis)
• 腶dried meat
• 簖bamboo fish trap
• 塅large area of flat terrain (used in place names)
• 毈infertile egg
• 碫coarse stone (used for whetstone)

Where 锻 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 3 Characters · Set 39 (HSK 3), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 3 word, with the rest of its level.
• How characters are built from components.
• How to learn Chinese characters.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read duàn correctly.
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