煉

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firing

On-Yomi: レン

Koohii stories:

1) [Megaqwerty] 21-6-2007(33): The East are the best at tempering (#2030 錬) because their fires are the best at firing.

2) [astridtops] 5-2-2007(14): The process of firing, that is, glaze bricks or refine metals, is well known in the east, and of course fire is used for it.

3) [einahpets] 26-7-2012(2): Firing bricks （ 煉瓦 れんが）became really important in Chicago after the Great Chicago Fire - in this kanji you can see the fire to the left and it stops to the east because of the lake.

4) [billyclyde] 1-11-2007(1): Firing metals and pottery and bricks, esp. bricks. So you put out a FIRE and then have the chief smelter YAO MING of the EAST fire it, soot all over his face as he pulls out the fired bricks.

5) [cameron_en] 21-11-2008(): If you try to smuggle drugs into the middle east, they'll set all your drugs on fire before handing you over to the firing squad.

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