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U+9023, 連
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-9023

CJK Unified Ideographs

U+F99A, 連
CJK COMPATIBILITY IDEOGRAPH-F99A

CJK Compatibility Ideographs

Translingual

Stroke order
11 strokes

Han character

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

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.
simp. *

Glyph origin

Ideogrammic compound (會意会意) : (to walk) + (chariot) – man-drawn carriage.

According to Duan Yucai, (lián) and 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 (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
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
BaxterSagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
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
Reading # 1/1
No. 7992
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
2
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*ren/

Definitions

  1. (historical) man-drawn carriage
  2. to link; to join; to connect
    我們電腦網線 [MSC, trad.]
    我们电脑网线 [MSC, simp.]
    Wǒmen wàng le bǎ diànnǎo lián shàng wǎngxiàn le.
    We forgot to connect the computer to the network cable.
    運河在一起 [MSC, trad.]
    运河在一起 [MSC, simp.]
    Xīn yùnhé jiāng liǎng tiáo hé lián zàiyīqǐ.
    The new canal links the two rivers.
  3. to ally with; to unite
  4. to involve; to implicate
  5. to simultaneously gain
  6. to include; including; counting
    共有出席 [MSC, trad.]
    共有出席 [MSC, simp.]
    Lián wǒ zài nèi gòngyǒu shí rén chūxí.
    There were ten present including myself.
  7. continuously; successively; one after one; repeatedly
      ―  lián shèng sān jú  ―  to win three games in succession
    鞭炮爆珠,可以 [MSC, trad.]
    鞭炮爆珠,可以 [MSC, simp.]
    Zhè zhǒng xīn biānpào jiào Bàozhū, kěyǐ lián xiǎng.
    This new firecracker called Bao Zhu could sound continuously.
  8. from; counting from
  9. and; with
  10. together; with each other
  11. hard; difficult; tough
  12. full; entire; whole
  13. (used in the 連…都/也… structures for emphasis) even; paradoxically
    畜生不如自己父母養活 [MSC, trad.]
    畜生不如自己父母养活 [MSC, simp.]
    lián xùshēng dōu bùrú, lián zìjǐ de fùmǔ dōu bù yǎnghuó.
    He is no better than an animal, because he doesn't even support his own parents.
    甚至孩子 [MSC, trad.]
    甚至孩子 [MSC, simp.]
    Shènzhì lián háizǐ dōu kàn dé dǒng zhè běn shū.
    Even a child can understand the book
  14. affinity; relationship by marriage
  15. (military) company (consisting of platoons () and forming part of a battalion ())
    以為新兵”“生活想到三點一線固定生活模式枯燥乏味訓練內容 [MSC, trad.]
    以为新兵”“生活想到三点一线固定生活模式枯燥乏味训练内容 [MSC, simp.]
    Tā yǐwèi xīnbīng lián dōu shì “dāo guāng jiàn yǐng” “wǔ qiāng nòng bàng” de shēnghuó, méi xiǎngdào què shì sāndiǎnyīxiàn de gùdìng shēnghuó móshì hé kūzào fáwèi de xùnliàn nèiróng.
    He thought that life in a company made up of new recruits would be filled with exciting maneuvers, but he did not expect it to be a monotonous routine with boring training content.
  16. (grammar) Short for 連詞连词 (liáncí, “conjunction”).
  17. a surname
      ―  Lián Zhàn  ―  Lien Chan (chairman of the Kuomintang from 2000 to 2005)
Synonyms
  • (to link):
  • (to include):
  • (continuously):
  • (even):

Compounds

Etymology 2

Pronunciation


Definitions

  1. difficult

Etymology 3

Pronunciation


Definitions

  1. to reach
  2. to remove

Etymology 4

Pronunciation


Definitions

  1. Only used in 連石连石.

Japanese

Shinjitai
Kyūjitai
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(Hanyo-Denshi)
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Kanji

(Fourth grade kyōiku kanjishinjitai kanji, kyūjitai form )

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

Readings

Compounds

Etymology 1

Kanji in this term
れん
Grade: 4
on'yomi

Middle Chinese (liᴇn)

Noun

(れん) (ren

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

Suffix

(れん) (-ren

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

Etymology 2

Kanji in this term
むらじ
Grade: 4
nanori

Old Japanese , from (mura, village) +‎ (nushi, chief)

Proper noun

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

Korean

Hanja

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

  1. hanja form? of / (take along; lead; join; connect)

Compounds

Vietnamese

Han character

: Hán Nôm readings: liên, liền

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