锻炼
Meaning
- to toughen
- to temper
- to engage in physical exercise
Example sentence
你还锻炼吗？
Do you still work out?
Characters in 锻炼
- 锻 duàn to forge metal; to temper, to train
- 炼 liàn to smelt, to refine; to temper, to train
锻 to forge metal plus 炼 to smelt. Both halves are metalworking, and exercise is the body being tempered the way iron is.