Chinese characters : List with all references

Character: 連

Modern (Beijing) reading: lián

Preclassic Old Chinese: ran

Classic Old Chinese: ran

Western Han Chinese: ran

Eastern Han Chinese: ran

Early Postclassic Chinese: len

Middle Postclassic Chinese: len

Late Postclassic Chinese: len

Middle Chinese: len

English meaning : go one after another

Russian meaning[s]: 1) соединяться; соприкасаться, примыкать; связываться; связь, отношение; 2) следовать беспрерывно; сплошной; непрерывный; поточный; подряд, кряду; 3) воен. рота, батарея, эскадрон; 4) древн. трудный; 5) служебное слово, оформляет дополнение, вынесенное на место впереди глагола; 6) даже; 7) вместе с...; и; а также; 8) Лянь (фамилия)

Comments: Also written as 漣 (with a narrowed meaning: 'be dripping continuously'). Standard Sino-Viet. is liên. For *r- cf. Xiamen lĩ², Chaozhou, Fuzhou lieŋ², Jianou liŋ². The original reading of the character was *ranʔ "a k. of carriage" (= 輦 q.v.; MC lén, Pek. liǎn), attested in LZ.

Sino-Tibetan etymology: Sino-Tibetan etymology

Dialectal data: Dialectal data

Radical: 162

Four-angle index: 6512

Karlgren code: 0213 a

Vietnamese reading: liền

Shijing occurrences: 58.2_

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Sino-Tibetan etymology :

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *r[ă]n

Meaning: row, even row

Chinese: 連 *ran in a row, consecutively; go one after another; 聯 *ran join, bring together.

Tibetan: ran be proportional, just right (cf. also ãdra similar, equal).

Kachin: mǝren⁴ equally, diŋren¹ place in a long, even row.

Lushai: (?) ron to help or join; all together, hron to lodge with, live with.

Comments: Mikir ren line, range, row; Dimasa ren line (comp.). Ben. 74; Coblin 57.

Chinese Dialects :

Number: 1304

Chinese etymology: Chinese etymology

Character: 連

MC description : 山開三平仙來

ZIHUI: 6647 1813

Beijing: lian 12

Jinan: liã 12

Xi'an: liã 12

Taiyuan: liɛ 1

Hankou: nian 12

Chengdu: nian 12

Yangzhou: lî̃ 12

Suzhou: lî 12

Wenzhou: li 12

Changsha: niẽ 12

Shuangfeng: nî̃ 12

Nanchang: liɛn 31

Meixian: liɛn 12

Guangzhou: lin 12

Xiamen: lian 12 (lit.); lĩ 12

Chaozhou: liǝŋ 12

Fuzhou: lieŋ 12

Shanghai: lî 32

Zhongyuan yinyun: lien 12