煉

to refine / to smelt

surname Dong

east / host (i.e. sitting on east side of guest) / landlord

fire / urgent / ammunition / fiery or flaming / internal heat (Chinese medicine) / hot (popular) / classifier for military units (old) / Kangxi radical 86

to extract (ore, minerals etc) / to refine / to purify / to process

oil refinery

(of Taoists) to practice austerities / to practice asceticism

to smelt metal

to condense milk (by evaporation) / condensed milk

to concoct pills of immortality

to refine / refining (e.g. oil, chemicals etc)

oil refinery

to spend a long time thinking about sth while unable to reach a decision

to polish a phrase

condensed milk

to craft one's words

coking / the process of producing coke from coal

lit. to practice austerities to become a Daoist immortal / practice makes perfect

a furnace for smelting metal

variant of 凝練|凝练[ning2 lian4]

variant of 洗練|洗练[xi3 lian4]

to parch and refine medicinal herbs

eight trigrams furnace to cook pills of immortality / symbol of the alchemist's art / Double, double toil and trouble, Fire burn, and cauldron bubble

maker of immortality pill / concocting magic pills