漢字Kanji · in Action & Movement
連: take along, lead
Also: join, connect, party, gang, clique
JLPT N310 strokesGrade 4Your ink: 白 Not met
⻌ carries the meaning · 車 is drawn in
10 strokes
Five readings, and the words that use each
レンren · on'yomi · in compounds
- 連休れんきゅうconsecutive holidays
- 国連こくれんUnited Nations
- 関連するかんれんするrelate
- 連続するれんぞくするbe consecutive
- 連絡するれんらくするcontact, connect
つらなるtsuranaru · kun'yomi · on its own
- 連なるつらなるstand in a row [v.i.]
つらねるtsuraneru · kun'yomi
- 連ねるつらねるjoin together in a row [v.t.]
つれるtsureru · kun'yomi
- 連れて行くつれていくtake someone along
-づれ-zure · kun'yomi
- 子供連れこどもづれaccompanied by children
Words: Kanji alive, CC BY 4.0.
成り立ち
Where it comes from
Origin · sourced
Ideogrammic compound (會意)辵 to walk, as 辶 + 車 chariot
Man-drawn carriage.
Source: Wiktionary, 連 (rev. 92769073), CC BY-SA 4.0
Memory story · made up to help you remember
“This swooping radical is the winding road you walk upon! It curves under the rest of the kanji like a path being carved through a landscape.”
繋がり
Connections
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
Also read レン
7 kanji share this on'yomiIn ChineseSimplified 连 · traditional, as in Japanese · lián
Japan keeps the traditional form 連; mainland China simplifies it to 连.
- Simplified
- 连 mainland China, Singapore
- Traditional
- 連 Taiwan, Hong Kong
Pinyin lián most common reading
Forms and pinyin: Unicode Unihan database (Unicode License v3). Pinyin lists the most common reading, not every reading.
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