Kanji1 / 14
練 kanji
practice, gloss, train, drill, polish, refine
- JLPT level
- N2 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N3 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 14
- School grade
- Grade 3 (elementary school)
On readings
レン
Kun readings
ねるねり
Variant forms
練Words with 練
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —未練がましいnot knowing when to let go (give up, etc.); unwilling to resign; having lingering attachment; regretful
- —畳の上の水練useless book learning; knowing the theory but being unable to put it into practice; practising swimming on a tatami mat
- —危険予知訓練work injury prevention training; accident awareness training; hazard prediction training
- —未練たらたらunable to let go (e.g. of one's feelings); stuck in the past; regretful; irresolute
- —未練たらしいnot knowing when to let go (give up, etc.); unwilling to resign; having lingering attachment; regretful
- —練習あるのみpractice, practice, practice; (only) practice makes perfect
- —災害図上訓練disaster simulation exercise; disaster imagination game; DIG
- —狂王の試練場Wizardry: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord (1981 video game)
- —未練未酌がないunsympathetic and inconsiderate; coldhearted
- —ドレミファ練習solfeggio; solfège
- —日本産業訓練協会Japan Industrial and Vocational Training Association
- —予備役将校訓練課程Reserve Officers' Training Corps (US); ROTC
- —職業訓練短期大学校vocational training college
- —鍛練tempering (metal); annealing; forging; toughening; disciplining; training
- —練成training; drilling; strengthening
- —練鉄wrought iron
- —練丹elixir of life (prepared from cinnabar in ancient China)
- —練丹術art of making elixirs (e.g. in Chinese trad. medicine); alchemy
- —こそ練practicing by oneself; covert rehearsal
- —百戦練磨veteran; battle-worn; schooled by adversity in many battles; hard-bitten; rich in experience; very experienced