IDENTITY
练liànto practice
HSK 2Top 400
CORE MEANING
to practice
- Part of speech
- verb
- Register
- neutral
Senses
- 1.to practice; to drillHSK2
FORM & BREAKDOWN
- Radical
- 纟silk radical (sī)
- strokes
- 8
- Structure
- left-right compound
- IDS sequence
- ⿰纟𫠣
- silk (boiling and refining it)
- part of the structure
USAGE
Common words
练习liànxíto practice
训练xùnliànto train
锻炼duànliànto exercise
Graded examples
他每天练习口语。Tā měitiān liànxí kǒuyǔ.HSK3
He practices speaking every day.
RELATIONS
Lookalike — don’t mix up
- 炼
LEARNING
Memory aid
Refining raw silk (纟) by repeated boiling — practice. (From 練.)
- HSK version
- 3.0
- Frequency rank
- #400
- Memory aid
- memory-aid
TRUST & SOURCES
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- AI-assisted editorial review
- Last reviewed
- 2026-08-15
Sources
- CC-CEDICT 2026-01-01
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