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聯

lián

connect

Phonosemantic compound. 耳 represents the meaning and 𢇇 represents the sound.

Components
耳 meaning component

耳  Meaning component

ěr

  

ear

Alludes to earrings connected to the ear.

𢇇 sound component

𢇇  Sound component

guān

  

to run threads though a web in weaving

Evolution

聯 Oracle script (~1250-1000 BC)

Oracle script

(~1250-1000 BC)
聯 Bronze script Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)

Bronze script

Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)
聯 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
聯 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

联 (聯) 

lián

connect, join; associate, ally; to ally; to unite; to join; (poetry) antithetical couplet

Most common words with 聯
Freq.
Word
Meaning

联系

connection

联邦

federal

联合

to combine

联

to ally

联盟

alliance

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*ɡ·ron

liᴇn

lián

to join


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 64.2800% of movies

485th most common character in movies

356th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

17

Simplified

联

Unicode

U+806F

Shuowen

“聯，連也。从耳，耳連於頰也；从絲，絲連不絕也。”


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