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HSK
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *連* | 連* | *連
to link / to join / to connect / continuously / in succession / including / (used with , etc) even / company (military)
HSK 3
serialized drama / dramatic series / show in parts
HSK 3
continuous / in a row / serial / consecutive
HSK 3
promptly; at once
HSK 3
to link; to join; to connect
HSK 5
on end / in a row / in succession
HSK 5
to interlock / to be linked / chain (store etc)
HSK 7-9
to link / to join / link / connection
HSK 7-9
continuous / unbroken / uninterrupted / extending forever into the distance (of mountain range, river etc)
HSK 7-9
to continue in (a political) office / to serve for another term of office
HSK 7-9
that very night / through the night / for several nights in a row
HSK 7-9
(idiom) one after another; in quick succession
HSK 7-9
in a row / in succession / running
HSK 7-9
chain store
HSK 7-9
a succession of / a series of
HSK 7-9
(idiom) stumbling and crawling; scrambling; frantically trying to escape
HSK 7-9
two trees that grow together as one / fig. conjugal union
electrical lead; connecting line / (Tw) to connect (to a network, device etc); to go online; connection / (congressional) caucus
to implicate / implicated / to link together
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
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surname Lian
serialized / published as a serial (in a newspaper)
chain
together with / along with
repeatedly / again and again
a one-piece dress
Wudalianchi, county-level city in Heihe 黑河, Heilongjiang
(Tw) hyperlink
variant of 聯結|联结 / (Tw) link (on a website); hyperlink
connector
to be related / to entail / to involve / joint (liability etc)
conjoined (twins) / one-piece (garment)
to link / to connect
Lianjiang, a county in Fuzhou City 福州市, Fujian / Lienchiang County, the official name of the Matsu Islands 馬祖列島|马祖列岛, a county of the ROC (based in Taiwan)
to fire (a weapon) in rapid succession
reaching the sky / for days on end / incessantly
concerted action / to collude (in dishonesty)
continuity
Chinese goldthread (Coptis chinensis), rhizome used in medicine
to linger / to remain enjoying oneself and forget to go home
to link up (disparate elements) / coherent (narrative, argument etc)
invaluable / priceless
Dalian, sub-provincial city in Liaoning Province 遼寧省|辽宁省
to connect / to communicate / to relate / (math.) connected
to take even the cooking pots (idiom) / to clean out / to wipe out
to be linked together / to be involved with / to collude / interconnection / involvement / collusion
one's own flesh and blood (idiom); closely related
mittens
chain reaction
to bear joint responsibility for sth / joint liability (law)
repeatedly (say something)
consecutive serial numbers / chain (of supermarkets, hotels etc) / hyphen
linked in a chain
to tell one lie after another (idiom) / to talk nonsense / bogus story
(idiom) continuous; unending
to adhere / to stick together
adhesion / to adhere / to cohere / to stick
to adjoin
liaison (in phonetics)
to involve others (in a crime) / guilt by association
both principal and interest / capital plus profit
(coll.) to work non-stop; to work around the clock
lit. lotus roots may break, but the fiber remains joined (idiom); lovers part, but still long for one another
Lianyungang, prefecture-level city in Jiangsu Province 江蘇省|江苏省
conjunction
conjoined twins
husbands of sisters / brothers-in-law / extremely close (of a relationship)
(idiom) in unbroken succession; continuous
to write without lifting one's pen from the paper / (in the Romanization of Chinese) to write two or more syllables together as a single word (not separated by spaces)
Forsythia
to bridge over / (linguistics) colligation
conjunction
to whine on for days (idiom) / to endlessly grumble complaints / incessant whining
company (of troops)
prolonged spell of rainy weather
Liancheng county in Longyan 龍岩|龙岩, Fujian
hyphen
joined as a string of pearls / in rapid succession / alignment / Renju, a Japanese game, also called Gomoku or five-in-a-row
flail
tie (music)
Erenhot City in Xilingol League 錫林郭勒盟|锡林郭勒盟, Inner Mongolia
day after day / for several days running
to cosign / to countersign
Qilian County in Haibei Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture 海北藏族自治州, Qinghai
chain store
lit. interrelated as bones and flesh (idiom); inseparably related / closely intertwined
Vertical and Horizontal Alliance, opposing stratagems devised by the School of Diplomacy 縱橫家|纵横家 during the Warring States Period (425-221 BC)
linking verb
company commander
to put together / linking / successive / a cluster
barrage of gunfire (often used as a metaphor for rapid speech)
to treat as guilty those associated with an offender (family, neighbors etc)
sparkling with wit (idiom)
Qilian Mountains in Qinghai
hyphen (punct.)
successive years / over many years
to implicate; to get (sb) into trouble / also pr. [lian2lei3] or [lian2lei4]
Lianshan Zhuang and Yao autonomous county in Qingyuan 清遠|清远, Guangdong

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