Chinese Word Entry

Simplified Chinese form:

Mandarin (Zhuyin): ㄌㄧㄢˊ
Mandarin (Pinyin): lián
Cantonese (Jyutping): ['lin4']
Definitions:
  1. to link

  2. to join

  3. to connect

  4. continuously

  5. in succession

  6. including

  7. (used with 也[ye3], 都[dou1] etc) even

  8. company (military)


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Chinese characters used in this word

take along, lead, join, connect, party, gang, clique, continuous, even
Readings
Mandarin: ㄌㄧㄢˊ (lián), ㄌㄧㄢˇ (liǎn), ㄌㄧㄢˋ (liàn), ㄌㄢˋ (làn)
Cantonese: lin4
Japanese: レン (ren) / つら.なる (tsuranaru)、 つら.ねる (tsuraneru)、 つ.れる (tsureru)、 -づ.れ (-dure)、 しきりに (shikirini)
Korean: 련 (ryeon), 연 (yeon)
Vietnamese: liên
Variants
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