煉丹八卦爐 liàn dān bā guà lú

symbol of the alchemist's art

Word data

HSK Not in HSK
Frequency Unknown

Definitions

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

Characters

Character Meaning
煉 liàn
to refine; to smelt; variant of 煉liàn
丹 dān
red; cinnabar; powder
八 bā HSK 1
eight; 8
卦 guà
divinatory diagram
爐 lú
stove; furnace; variant of 爐lú