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)

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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Cantonese

Hanzi

連 (simplified 连, jyutping lin4, Yale lin4)

1. (military) company

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).

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Japanese

Kanji

連 (grade 4 “Kyōiku” kanji)

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

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Korean

Hanja

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

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Mandarin

Hanzi

連 (simplified 连, pinyin lián (lian2), làn (lan4), liǎn (lian3), liàn (lian4), Wade-Giles lan⁴, lien², lien³, lien⁴)

1. (military) company

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).

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Middle Chinese

Han character

連 (*liɛn)

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Min Nan

Hanzi

連 (liâm, lián, liân, nî)

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Vietnamese

Han character

連 (liên, len, liến, liền)