Kanji Kaisen

漢字Kanji · in Textiles, Plants & Food

練: practice, gloss

Also: train, drill, polish, refine

JLPT N214 strokesGrade 3Your ink: 白 Not met

糸 carries the meaning · 東 gives the sound

14 strokes

Three readings, and the words that use each

レンren · on'yomi · in compounds

  • 練習するれんしゅうするpractice
  • 訓練するくんれんするtrain
  • 熟練するじゅくれんするbecome skilled
  • 試練しれんtrial
  • 練習れんしゅう
  • 訓練くんれん

ねるneru · kun'yomi · on its own

  • 練るねるknead, work over

ねりneri · kun'yomi

  • 練りねりkneading; gloss; tempering

Words: Kanji alive, CC BY 4.0 · JMdict, EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Where it comes from

Origin · sourced

Phono-semantic compound (形聲)糸 silk (meaning) + 柬 (sound)

Source: Wiktionary, 練 (rev. 92162477), CC BY-SA 4.0

Memory story · made up to help you remember

“Thread (糸) + separate/select (柬). To carefully "separate" and "refine" raw "threads" through steady work until they are perfectly smooth, strong, and prepared.”
From the 糸 thread story
繋がり
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
糸

Also built on thread (糸)

All 71
東

Also built on east (東)

The 東 family reads トウ (tou); 練 is read レン.

Also read レン

7 kanji share this on'yomi

Easy to confuse

The difference, side by side
練 practice · 東
vs緒 thong · 者
練 has 東 where 緒 has 者.
In ChineseSimplified 练 · traditional, as in Japanese · liàn

Japan keeps the traditional form 練; mainland China simplifies it to 练.

Simplified
练 mainland China, Singapore
Traditional
練 Taiwan, Hong Kong

Pinyin liàn most common reading

Forms and pinyin: Unicode Unihan database (Unicode License v3). Pinyin lists the most common reading, not every reading.

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