鍛 — forge/temper/train

JLPT N1 kanji · 17 strokes · on'yomi tan · kun'yomi kita·eru.

Metal (金) beaten in stages (段) — forging, training hard.

Example words

• 鍛える — kitaeru — to train/forge
• 鍛錬 — tanren — discipline/training

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