連

See also: 连 and 運

Translingual

Stroke order

Etymology

stringing vehicles

Han character

連 (radical 162 辵+7, in Chinese 11 strokes, in Japanese 10 strokes, cangjie input 卜十田十 (YJWJ), four-corner 3530₀, composition ⿺辶車)

1. join, connect
2. continuous
3. even

References

• KangXi: page 1259, character 1
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 38902
• Dae Jaweon: page 1747, character 1
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 6, page 3836, character 1
• Unihan data for U+9023

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Chinese

simpl.		连
trad.		連

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): lián, làn, liǎn, liàn (lian², lan⁴, lian³, lian⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄌㄧㄢˊ, ㄌㄢˋ, ㄌㄧㄢˇ, ㄌㄧㄢˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): lin⁴
• Min Nan (POJ): liâm / nî / liân

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: lián
    • Zhuyin: ㄌㄧㄢˊ
    • Wade-Giles: lien²
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: lian
    • IPA ^(key): /li̯ɛn³⁵/
      
      
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: làn
    • Zhuyin: ㄌㄢˋ
    • Wade-Giles: lan⁴
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: lann
    • IPA ^(key): /la̠n⁵¹/
      
      
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: liǎn
    • Zhuyin: ㄌㄧㄢˇ
    • Wade-Giles: lien³
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: lean
    • IPA ^(key): /li̯ɛn²¹⁴/
      
      
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: liàn
    • Zhuyin: ㄌㄧㄢˋ
    • Wade-Giles: lien⁴
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: liann
    • IPA ^(key): /li̯ɛn⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: lin⁴
    • Yale: lìhn
    • Cantonese Pinyin: lin⁴
    • IPA ^(key): /liːn²¹/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: liâm / nî / liân
    • Tâi-lô: liâm / nî / liân
    • IPA (Taipei): /liam²³/, /ni²³/, /liɛn²³/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /liam¹³/, /ni¹³/, /liɛn¹³/
  • Note: liâm, nî - vernacular, liân - literary.

Middle Chinese pronunciation (連, reconstructed)
Character (連), Pronunciation (1/1)
Initial: 來 (37) Final: 仙 Division: III			Openness: Open Tone: Level (Ø)			Fanqie: 力延切
Zhengzhang Shangfang	Bernard Karlgren	Li Rong	Pan Wuyun	Edwin Pulleyblank	Wang Li	Shao Rongfen
/liᴇn/	/li̯ɛn/	/liɛn/	/liɛn/	/lian/	/lĭɛn/	/ljæn/

Old Chinese pronunciation (連, reconstructed)
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character					No.					Phonetic component					Rime group					Rime subdivision					Corresponding MC rime					Old Chinese					Notes
連					7992					連					元					2					連					/*ren/

Definitions

1. (used in the 連...也/都 and 連...也/都 不如 stuctures) (emphasis) even
   • 他連畜生都不如，連自己的父母都不養活。 [Beijing Mandarin, MSC, trad.]

     Tā lián xùshēng dōubùrú, lián zìjǐ de fùmǔ dōu bù yǎnghuó. [Pinyin]

     He is no better than an animal, because he doesn't even support his own parents.

2. including
   • 連我在内共有十人出席。 [Beijing Mandarin, MSC, trad.]

     Lián wǒ zài nèi gòngyǒu shí rén chūxí. [Pinyin]

     There were ten present including myself.

Noun

連

1. (military) company

Verb

連

1. to link, to join, to connect
   • 我们忘了把电脑连上电话线了。 [Beijing Mandarin, MSC, trad.]

     Wǒmen wàng le bǎ diànnǎo lián shàng diànhuàxiàn le. [Pinyin]

     We forgot to connect the computer to the phone line.

   • 新运河将两条河连在一起。 [Beijing Mandarin, MSC, trad.]

     Xīn yùnhé jiāng liǎng tiáo hé lián zàiyīqǐ. [Pinyin]

     The new canal will link the two rivers.

Adverb

連

1. continuously, succession
   • 这种新鞭炮叫爆珠，可以连响。 [Beijing Mandarin, MSC, trad.]

     Zhè zhǒng xīn biānpào jiào bàozhū, kěyǐ lián xiǎng. [Pinyin]

     This new firecracker called Bao Zhu could sound continuously.

   • 他连胜三局 [Beijing Mandarin, MSC, trad.] — tā lián shèng sān jú [Pinyin] — He won three games in succession.

Proper noun

連

1. A surname​., Lian

Usage notes

(military): Under the National Revolutionary Army, a company was composed of three platoons (排). In turn, three or four companies formed a battalion (營).

References

• Taiwan Min Nan Common Words Dictionary (臺灣閩南語常用詞辭典)

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Japanese

Kanji

連

(grade 4 “Kyōiku” kanji)

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Readings

• On: れん (ren)
• Kun: つらなる (連なる tsuranaru), つらねる (連ねる tsuraneru), つれる (連れる tsureru), むらじ (連 muraji; surnames only)

Compounds

連関: linkage 連休: consecutive holidays 連結: linking 連呼: calling again and again 連行: taking 連衡: alliance

連合: union 連鎖 chain 連座: implication 連載: series 連日: everyday 連声 (sandhi) 連想: association of ideas

連続: continuous 連濁 (れんだく, rendaku, “rendaku, sequential voicing”) 連中: party 連動: linked action 連盟: league 連絡: contact

連理: trees with intertwined branches; relationship between spouses 関連: relation 連係: linkage 連珠 (renju) 連邦: commonwealth 連立: coalition

連弾: barrage

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Korean

Hanja

連 (ryeon, yeon) (hangeul 련, 연, revised ryeon, yeon, McCune-Reischauer ryŏn, yŏn, Yale lyen, yen)

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Vietnamese

Han character

連 (liên, len, liến, liền)

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