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U+806F, 聯
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-806F

CJK Unified Ideographs
U+F997, 聯
CJK COMPATIBILITY IDEOGRAPH-F997

CJK Compatibility Ideographs

Translingual

Han character

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

Derived characters

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

Chinese

trad.
simp.
alternative forms

Glyph origin

Ideogrammic compound (會意 / 会意) : (ear) + (silk).

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

Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-rjan (equal; to place in a row; to align; row); related to (OC *ren) (STEDT; Schuessler, 2007).

Pronunciation


Note: liòn - “to sew”.

  • Dialectal data
Variety Location
Mandarin Beijing /lian³⁵/
Harbin /lian²⁴/
Tianjin /lian⁴⁵/
Jinan /liã⁴²/
Qingdao /liã⁴²/
Zhengzhou /lian⁴²/
/lyan⁴²/
Xi'an /luã²⁴/
Xining /liã²⁴/
Yinchuan /lian⁵³/
Lanzhou /liɛ̃n⁵³/
Ürümqi /lian⁵¹/
Wuhan /niɛn²¹³/
Chengdu /nian³¹/
Guiyang /nian²¹/
Kunming /liɛ̃³¹/
Nanjing /lien²⁴/
Hefei /liĩ⁵⁵/
Jin Taiyuan /lye¹¹/
Pingyao /lye̞¹³/
Hohhot /lye³¹/
Wu Shanghai /li²³/
Suzhou /liɪ¹³/
Hangzhou /liẽ̞²¹³/
Wenzhou /li³¹/
Hui Shexian /le⁴⁴/
Tunxi /liɛ⁴⁴/
Xiang Changsha /liẽ¹³/
Xiangtan /niẽ¹²/
Gan Nanchang /liɛn⁴⁵/
Hakka Meixian /lien¹¹/
Taoyuan /lien¹¹/
Cantonese Guangzhou /lyn²¹/
Nanning /lin²¹/
Hong Kong /lyn²¹/
Min Xiamen (Hokkien) /lian³⁵/
Fuzhou (Eastern Min) /lieŋ⁵³/
Jian'ou (Northern Min) /liŋ³³/
/luiŋ³³/
Shantou (Teochew) /liaŋ³⁵/
Haikou (Hainanese) /lin³¹/
/luaŋ³¹/

Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (37)
Final () (77)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () III
Fanqie
Baxter ljen
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/liᴇn/
Pan
Wuyun
/liɛn/
Shao
Rongfen
/ljæn/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/lian/
Li
Rong
/liɛn/
Wang
Li
/lĭɛn/
Bernhard
Karlgren
/li̯ɛn/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
lián
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
lin4
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character
Reading # 1/1
No. 8642
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
3
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*ɡ·ron/

Definitions

  1. to connect; to join
  2. to associate; to ally
  3. (literary or dialectal) to sew; to stitch
    alt. forms:  / , 孿 / (luán),  / 𦈐 (lián),  / (lián)
    [Cantonese]  ―  lyun4 saam1   ―  to sew clothes
    [Cantonese]  ―  lyun4 zo2 sei3 zam1   ―  to stitch four stitches
  4. couplet
      ―  chūnlián  ―  Spring Festival couplets
      ―  jǐnglián  ―  the fifth and sixth lines of a lüshi

Synonyms

  • (to sew):

Compounds

References

Japanese

Kanji

(Hyōgai kanji)

  1. Alternative form of

Usage notes

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

Readings

Compounds

Not replaced by in modern orthography
Replaced by in modern orthography

Korean

Hanja

(eumhun 잇달 (itdal ryeon), word-initial (South Korea) 잇달 (itdal yeon))

  1. hanja form? of ] (connect, join)
  2. hanja form? of ] (associate, ally)

Vietnamese

Han character

: Hán Nôm readings: liên, lén, lẻn, liền, liễn

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