Chinese symbol for “refining”
炼化
liàn huà
Traditional: 煉化
to refine; refining (e.g. oil, chemicals etc)
The closest CC-CEDICT match for refining is 炼化 (liàn huà), defined as: to refine; refining (e.g. oil, chemicals etc).
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Related words
Other words that share a character with 炼化.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 锻炼 (鍛鍊) | duàn liàn | to toughen; to temper |
| 修炼 (修煉) | xiū liàn | (of Taoists) to practice austerities; to practice asceticism |
| 提炼 (提煉) | tí liàn | to extract (ore, minerals etc); to refine |
| 冶炼 (冶煉) | yě liàn | to smelt metal |
| 炼狱 (煉獄) | liàn yù | purgatory |
| 炼油 (煉油) | liàn yóu | to refine crude oil; to render animal fat |
| 文化 | wén huà | culture; civilization |
| 变化 (變化) | biàn huà | (intransitive) to change; to vary; change; variation |
See also: Japanese symbol for “refining”.
Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.