lián
connect, join, link
Depicts a carriage (車) being pulled by a person walking (辶).
Evolution

Bronze script
Late Spring and Autumn (~500 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 連
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
---|---|---|
to link | ||
continuous | ||
to link | ||
chain | ||
Dalian subprovincial city in Liaoning province 遼寧省|辽宁省 in northeast China |
Component uses
Meaning component in 1 character (0 verified)
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*C.ra[n] | ljen | lián | [surname] |
*[r]a[n] | ljen | lián | connect in a row |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 71.8244% of movies
570th most common character in movies
399th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 10 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+9023 |
Shuowen | “連,員連也。从辵,从車。” |
Sources
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