练

練traditional

HSK 3#2255 by frequencyradical 纟

liàn["v"]

to practice; to train; to drill; to perfect (one's skill); exercise; (literary) white silk; to boil and scour raw silk

Examples

她花很多时间练钢琴。

She spends a lot of time practicing the piano.

汤姆是个差劲的教练。

Tom was a bad coach.

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Definitions adapted from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0, modified). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Frequency ranks from the BCC corpus. Full credits on the Attributions page.