聯

See also: 联 and 聨

Translingual

Han character

聯 (Kangxi radical 128, 耳+11, 17 strokes, cangjie input 尸十女戈廿 (SJVIT), four-corner 1217₂, composition ⿰耳𢇇)

Derived characters

• 壣, 㶌, 㺦, 𤒤, 𪚄/𪚁

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 969, character 5
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 29153
• Dae Jaweon: page 1419, character 14
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2796, character 3
• Unihan data for U+806F
• Unihan data for U+F997

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Chinese

trad.		聯
simp.		联
alternative forms		聮 䏈 聫 聨 𦕱

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 聯
Shang	Western Zhou	Warring States	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Chu slip and silk script	Small seal script

Characters in the same phonetic series (卵) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
卵	*ɡ·roːlʔ, *ɡ·roːnʔ
關	*kroːn
関	*kroːn
聯	*ɡ·ron

Ideogrammic compound (會意／会意) : 耳 (“ear”) + 絲 (“silk”).

According to Duan Yucai, 聯 and 連／连 are two characters for a same word, with the former used in the Zhou dynasty and the latter in the Han dynasty.

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 聯

1. to connect; to join
2. to associate; to ally

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Japanese

Kanji

聯

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

1. Alternative form of 連

Usage notes

In modern Japanese, 聯 is mostly replaced by 連, due to the deprecation of non-tōyō kanji caused by the Japanese script reform.

Japanese terms with 聯 replaced by daiyōji 連

欧州連合

旧ソ連

国際連合児童基金

国際連合

国際連合安全保障理事会

国際連合教育科学文化機関

国連

国連安全保障理事会

国連安保理

国連環境計画

ソビエト連邦

ソ連

蘇連

ヨーロッパ連合

連合

連合王国

連邦

連盟

連立

Readings

• Go-on: れん (ren)
• Kan-on: れん (ren)
• Kun: つらなる (tsuranaru, 聯なる); つらねる (tsuraneru, 聯ねる)

Compounds

Not replaced by 連 in modern orthography

• 対聯(たいれん) (tairen), 対聯(ついれん) (tsuiren)

 

Replaced by 連 in modern orthography

• 聯(れん)句(く) (renku)
• 聯繋(れんけい) (renkei)
• 聯亙(れんこう) (renkō)
• 聯合(れんごう) (rengō, “union, alliance, confederation”)
• 聯想(れんそう) (rensō, “suggestion, association of ideas”)
• 聯珠(れんじゅ) (renju, “renju game”)
• 聯隊(れんたい) (rentai)
• 聯邦(れんぽう) (renpō, “union, federation, commonwealth”)
• 聯盟(れんめい) (renmei, “federation, alliance, association”)
• 聯絡(れんらく) (renraku, “to communicate, connection, correspondence”)
• 聯立(れんりつ) (renritsu, “alliance, coalition”)
• 関聯(かんれん) (kanren)

 

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Korean

Hanja

聯 • (ryeon>yeon) (hangeul 련>연)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(deprecated template usage) 聯 (liên, lén, lẻn, liền, liễn)

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