煉丹

Chinese

		refine; smelt	red; pellet; powder red; pellet; powder; cinnabar
trad. (煉丹/鍊丹)		煉/鍊	丹
simp. (炼丹)		炼	丹

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): liàndān

(Zhuyin): ㄌㄧㄢˋ ㄉㄢ
Cantonese (Jyutping): lin⁶ daan¹
Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): liān-tan

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: liàndān
  - Zhuyin: ㄌㄧㄢˋ ㄉㄢ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: liàndan
  - Wade–Giles: lien⁴-tan¹
  - Yale: lyàn-dān
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: lianndan
  - Palladius: ляньдань (ljanʹdanʹ)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /li̯ɛn⁵¹ tän⁵⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
  - Jyutping: lin⁶ daan¹
  - Yale: lihn dāan
  - Cantonese Pinyin: lin⁶ daan¹
  - Guangdong Romanization: lin⁶ dan¹
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /liːn²² taːn⁵⁵/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: liān-tan
  - Tâi-lô: liān-tan
  - Phofsit Daibuun: liexndafn
  - IPA (Xiamen): /liɛn²²⁻²¹ tan⁴⁴/
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /liɛn⁴¹⁻²² tan³³/
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /liɛn²²⁻²¹ tan⁴⁴/
  - IPA (Taipei): /liɛn³³⁻¹¹ tan⁴⁴/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /liɛn³³⁻²¹ tan⁴⁴/

Verb

煉丹

(Taoism, historical) to concoct pills of immortality

Derived terms

煉丹子／炼丹子
煉丹術／炼丹术 (liàndānshù)

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