(lián) - to unite, to connect (bound morpheme) in Mandarin
liánTraditional: 联
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Translation
to unite, to connect (bound morpheme)
Word origin
A phono-semantic character pairing the ear radical 耳 (ěr) with 关 as the phonetic, meaning to join or connect, with the ear suggesting links in a chain.
- Origin
- phono-semantic
- Root
- 耳 (ear radical) + 关 (phonetic)
Stroke order
联
Examples
。
Please contact me.
。
Lets keep in touch.
。
He has lost contact with his family.
段。
Please link these two paragraphs together.
。
They joined hands and opened a shop.
联 (lián) is a bound morpheme meaning to unite or connect; it heads 联系 (liánxì), to contact.
Appears in 2 words
Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 联.
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