连

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to link; to join; to connect; continuously; in succession; including; (used with 也[ye3], 都[dou1] etc) even; company (military)

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HSK 3.0: Level 3
Old HSK: Level 4
Strokes: 7
Radical: 辵 +4
Structure: Lower-left enclosure 左下包
Traditional: 連
Common rank: #281
Unicode: U+8FDE

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Formation & memory

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How 连 is formed

Ideographic compound (会意字)

A cart 车 moving 辶 goods between cities

Components 辶车

How to remember it

one after another · Heisig RSH #301

vehicle + road

Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.

Words with 连

The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.

Word	Pinyin	Meaning
大连外国语大学	Dà lián Wài guó yǔ Dà xué	Dalian University of Foreign Languages
大连理工大学	Dà lián Lǐ gōng Dà xué	Dalian University of Technology
大连市	Dà lián Shì	Dalian, sub-provincial city in Liaoning Province 遼寧省\|辽宁省[Liao2 ning2 Sheng3]
连山区	Lián shān Qū	Lianshan, a district of Huludao City 葫蘆島市\|葫芦岛市[Hu2 lu2 dao3 Shi4], Liaoning
连山县	Lián shān Xiàn	see 連山壯族瑤族自治縣\|连山壮族瑶族自治县[Lian2 shan1 Zhuang4 zu2 Yao2 zu2 Zi4 zhi4 xian4]
连平县	Lián píng Xiàn	Lianping, a county in Heyuan City 河源市[He2 yuan2 Shi4], Guangdong
连南县	Lián nán Xiàn	see 連南瑤族自治縣\|连南瑶族自治县[Lian2 nan2 Yao2 zu2 Zi4 zhi4 xian4]
连城县	Lián chéng Xiàn	Liancheng, a county in Longyan City 龍巖市\|龙岩市[Long2 yan2 Shi4], Fujian
马克西米连	Mǎ kè xī mǐ lián	Maximilian or Maximilien (name)
连分数	lián fēn shù	(math.) continued fraction
连江县	Lián jiāng Xiàn	Lianjiang, a county in Fuzhou City 福州市[Fu2 zhou1 Shi4], Fujian; Lienchiang County, the off…
连州市	Lián zhōu Shì	Lianzhou, a county-level city in Qingyuan City 清遠市\|清远市[Qing1 yuan3 Shi4], Guangdong
大连	Dà lián	see 大連市\|大连市[Da4 lian2 Shi4]
连县	Lián xiàn	Lian county in Guangdong
一连	yī lián	in a row; in succession; running
连山	Lián shān	see 連山壯族瑤族自治縣\|连山壮族瑶族自治县[Lian2 shan1 Zhuang4 zu2 Yao2 zu2 Zi4 zhi4 xian4]; see 連山區\|连山区[Lian…
连天	lián tiān	reaching the sky; for days on end; incessantly
连通器	lián tōng qì	communicating vessels (in scientific experiment)
连动	lián dòng	to link; to peg (currency); gang (gears); continuously; serial verb construction
连手	lián shǒu	concerted action; to collude (in dishonesty)

Sound family

These characters use 连 as their sound component — compare how they read.

Character	Pinyin	Meaning
连 sound part	lián	to join, to connect; continuous; even
莲	lián	lotus, water lily; paradise
涟	lián	flowing water; ripples; weeping
裢	lián	a folding purse kept in one's belt
梿	lián	flail; to thresh
鲢	lián	silver carp, hypophthalmiathys
琏	liǎn	a vessel used to hold grain offerings