連

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See also: 连 and 運

連 U+9023, 連
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-9023
← 逢
 		CJK Unified Ideographs 逤 →

連 U+F99A, 連
CJK COMPATIBILITY IDEOGRAPH-F99A
← 蓮
 		CJK Compatibility Ideographs 鍊 →

Translingual

Stroke order
11 strokes

Han character

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

Derived characters

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 1259, character 1
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 38902
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1747, character 1
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 3836, character 1
  • Unihan data for U+9023

Chinese

trad. 連
simp. 连*

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (連) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
連 *ren
漣 *ren
鰱 *ren
翴 *ren
鏈 *ren, *rens, *r̥ʰen
璉 *renʔ
僆 *renʔ, *reːns
摙 *renʔ, *rens
蓮 *renʔ, *reːn
嗹 *reːn
縺 *reːn

Ideogrammic compound (會意 / 会意) : 辶 (“to walk”) + 車 (“chariot”) – man-drawn carriage.

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

Etymology 1

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-rjan (“equal; to place in a row; to align; row”); related to 聯 (OC *ɡ·ron) (STEDT; Schuessler, 2007).

Pronunciation

Note:
  • liân/lên - literary (incl. surname);
  • nî (黃連), liâm (連鞭) - vernacular.
Note:
  • liang5 - Shantou;
  • liêng5 - Chaozhou;
  • hian5 - alternative pronunciation for surname sense.
Rime
Character 連
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 來 (37)
Final (韻) 仙 (77)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 力延切
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
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 連 連
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		lián lián
Middle
Chinese 		‹ ljen › ‹ ljen ›
Old
Chinese 		/*C.ra/ /*a/
English connect in a row

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. * as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 連
Reading # 1/1
No. 7992
Phonetic
component 		連
Rime
group 		元
Rime
subdivision 		2
Corresponding
MC rime 		連
Old
Chinese 		/*ren/

Conjunction

  1. continuously; continue
    接二連三地給我們製造麻煩 [MSC, trad.]
    接二连三地给我们制造麻烦 [MSC, simp.]
    Jiē èr lián sān de gěi wǒ men zhì zào má fan
    Making troubles to us continuously.
  2. and; also (often with a mood of emphasis)
    他連國際法院都去參觀了。 [MSC, trad.]
    他连国际法院都去参观了。 [MSC, simp.]
    Tā lián guójìfǎyuàn dōu qù cānguān le.
    And he also visited the ICJ.

Noun

  1. connection; combination
    連接網絡／连接网络  ―  lián jiē wǎngluò  ―  connecting the Internet
    連勝／连胜  ―  lián shèng  ―  to win contiuously
  2. (military) company
  3. continuation

Phrases

  1. (sometimes derogatory) (in 連...都...) even...; even...also...
    連孩子都知道／连孩子都知道  ―  lián háizǐ dōu zhīdào  ―  even children also know

Verb

  1. (informal) Short for 連接／连接 (liánjiē).
  2. (archaic) to include (as an archaic word in single)
    連夜／连夜  ―  liányè  ―  overnight

Usage notes

Not to be confused with the character 聯 / 联 (lián), this character has same pronunciation (in Mandarin) and (close) meaning but it is needed to distinguish them. Not to write words like 聯續 (連續) and 連合國 (聯合國).

Synonyms
  • (to link):
  • (to include):
  • (continuously):
  • (even):

Compounds

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

Definitions

連

  1. † difficult

Etymology 3

Pronunciation

Definitions

連

  1. ‡ to reach
  2. † to remove

Etymology 4

Pronunciation

Definitions

連

  1. Only used in 連石／连石.

Japanese

Shinjitai 連
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Kanji

連

(Fourth grade kyōiku kanji, shinjitai kanji, kyūjitai form 連)

  1. take along; lead; join; connect
  2. (used as a suffix) party; company; group; set

Readings

Compounds

Etymology 1

Kanji in this term
連
れん
Grade: 4
on'yomi

Middle Chinese 連 (liᴇn)

Noun

連(れん) • (ren) 

  1. (of paper) a ream
  2. (poetry) a stanza; a verse

Suffix

連(れん) • (-ren) 

  1. a group of people
  2. amount of times consecutively

Etymology 2

Kanji in this term
連
むらじ
Grade: 4
nanori

Old Japanese , from 村 (mura, “village”) +‎ 主 (nushi, “chief”)

Proper noun

連(むらじ) • (Muraji) 

  1. (historical) the second-lowest of the 八色の姓 (Yakusa no Kabane, “eight hereditary titles promulgated by Emperor Tenmu”)

See also

References

  1. ^ “連”, in 漢字ぺディア [Kanjipedia]‎ (in Japanese), The Japan Kanji Aptitude Testing Foundation, 2015–2024

Korean

Hanja

連 (eumhun 잇닿을 련 (itda'eul ryeon), word-initial (South Korea) 잇닿을 연 (itda'eul yeon))

  1. hanja form? of ] (“take along; lead; join; connect”)

Compounds

Vietnamese

Han character

連: Hán Nôm readings: liên, liền

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