練

音読おんよみ: レン

訓読くんよみ: ねる

画数かくすう: 14

部首ぶしゅ: 糸（いとへん）

Meaning

Train / Practice / Refine

  • Basic forms
  • 練る — to knead; to refine; to polish / base form
  • 練ります — (I) knead; refine / masu form
  • 練った — kneaded; refined / ta form
  • 練って — knead and … / te-form
  • 練らない — do not knead / negative form
  • 練れば — if (you) knead / conditional
  • 練れ — knead! / imperative
  • Other common forms
  • 計画を練る — to refine a plan
  • 文章を練っている — polishing the writing
  • More
  • もっと練ろう — let’s refine it more / 〜よう form
  • 練らなかった — didn’t knead; didn’t refine / past negative
  • 練っている — is kneading; is refining / progressive

練る（ねる） is a godan verb ending in る (special class). Used literally for kneading (dough, paste) and figuratively for polishing ideas, writing, strategies, and plans.

  • 練習れんしゅう — practice
  • 訓練くんれん — training
  • 試練しれん — trial, test
  • 練成れんせい — discipline, cultivation
  • 練乳れんにゅう — condensed milk
  • 精練せいれん — refining, polish

練 combines the radical 糸いと for "thread" with the phonetic component 東とう. The original meaning was "to twist threads together" — and by extension, it came to mean "to knead," "refine," and eventually "train the body or mind."

毎日まいにち、練習れんしゅうすれば、上手じょうずになります。
If you practice every day, you’ll get better.

彼かれは 訓練くんれんで 体からだを鍛きたえた。
He trained his body through discipline.

習
Creates
練習れんしゅう — practice
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