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連

lián

connect, join, link

Depicts a carriage (車) being pulled by a person walking (辶).

Components
車 meaning component

車  Meaning component

chē, jū

  

vehicle

辶 meaning component

辶  Meaning component

chuò

  

walk

辶 is a component form of 辵.

Evolution

連 Bronze script Late Spring and Autumn (~500 BC)

Bronze script

Late Spring and Autumn (~500 BC)
連 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
連 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
連 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

连 (連) 

lián

join, connect; continuous; even; to link; to join; to connect; continuously; in succession; including; (used with 也[yě], 都[dōu] etc) even; company (military)

连 (連) 

Lián

surname Lian

Most common words with 連
Freq.
Word
Meaning

连

to link

连续

continuous

连接

to link

连环

chain

大连

Dalian subprovincial city in Liaoning province 遼寧省|辽宁省 in northeast China

Component uses

Meaning component in 1 character (0 verified)

鏈

Sound component in 6 characters (0 verified)

蓮 鏈 漣 鰱 褳 槤

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*C.ra[n]

ljen

lián

[surname]

*[r]a[n]

ljen

lián

connect in a row


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 71.8244% of movies

570th most common character in movies

399th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

10

Simplified

连

Unicode

U+9023

Shuowen

“連，員連也。从辵，从車。”


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