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HSK
serialized drama / dramatic series / show in parts
HSK 3
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *連* | 連* | *連
to link / to join / to connect / continuously / in succession / including / (used with , etc) even / company (military)
HSK 3
promptly; at once
HSK 3
continuous / in a row / serial / consecutive
HSK 3
to link; to join; to connect
HSK 5
a succession of / a series of
HSK 7-9
on end / in a row / in succession
HSK 5
in a row / in succession / running
HSK 7-9
hat-trick (sports)
lit. reins together and carriages level (idiom); keeping exactly abreast of one another / running neck and neck
chain store
HSK 7-9
to tell one lie after another (idiom) / to talk nonsense / bogus story
to link / to join / link / connection
HSK 7-9
lit. interrelated as bones and flesh (idiom); inseparably related / closely intertwined
to link / to peg (currency) / gang (gears) / continuously / serial verb construction
to be linked together / to be involved with / to collude / interconnection / involvement / collusion
(idiom) one after another; in quick succession
HSK 7-9
Horizontal Alliance, clique of the School of Diplomacy 縱橫家|纵横家 during the Warring States Period (425-221 BC)
to continue in (a political) office / to serve for another term of office
HSK 7-9
Ma Lianliang (1901-1966), Beijing opera star, one of the Four great beards 四大鬚生|四大须生
discontinuous; discrete
needlework / sewing and mending
continuous / unceasing
interlinked
to implicate / implicated / to link together
to interlock / to be linked / chain (store etc)
HSK 7-9
to linger / to remain enjoying oneself and forget to go home
fighting and winning a series of battles (idiom); ever victorious
linked in a chain
a one-piece dress
husbands of sisters / brothers-in-law / extremely close (of a relationship)
conjunction
(idiom) stumbling and crawling; scrambling; frantically trying to escape
HSK 7-9
lit. lotus roots may break, but the fiber remains joined (idiom); lovers part, but still long for one another
to whine on for days (idiom) / to endlessly grumble complaints / incessant whining
one's own flesh and blood (idiom); closely related
continuity
serial killer
to connect directly to
no choice but to suffer in silence (idiom) / also written 啞巴吃黃蓮|哑巴吃黄莲 / (often precedes 有苦說不出|有苦说不出)
continuous / unbroken / uninterrupted / extending forever into the distance (of mountain range, river etc)
HSK 7-9
company (of troops)
to tie the knot (idiom) / to get married
communicating vessels (in scientific experiment)
open systems interconnection / OSI
consecutive defeats / to lose several times in a row
sparkling with wit (idiom)
seamless connection
hyphen
to treat as guilty those associated with an offender (family, neighbors etc)
Wudalianchi, a county-level city in Heihe City 黑河市, Heilongjiang
Jet Li (1963–), Chinese martial artist, actor and film director
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)
compound ratio
coordinated sequence of strategic moves
successive offenses / serial crime
that very night / through the night / for several nights in a row
HSK 7-9
comic strip
to relate closely / closely related
to link / to connect
reaching the sky / for days on end / incessantly
Lianshan district of Huludao city 葫蘆島市|葫芦岛市, Liaoning
one-piece swimsuit
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)
to batter / combo (hit) (gaming) / (volleyball, table tennis etc) double hit / double contact
Maximilian or Maximilien (name)
to loiter (i.e. reluctant to leave) / to linger on
virtual connection
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
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surname Lian
successive years / over many years
mittens
Lianyun, a district of Lianyungang City 連雲港市|连云港市, Jiangsu
(music) tuplet
to connect / to communicate / to relate / (math.) connected
(idiom) in unbroken succession; continuous
two trees that grow together as one / fig. conjugal union
(of a piece of writing) long and tedious (idiom) / verbose
to link up (disparate elements) / coherent (narrative, argument etc)
a bunch of nonsense / verbose and rambling
to involve others (in a crime) / guilt by association
nuclear chain reaction
Liannan Yao Autonomous County, in Qingyuan City 清遠市|清远市, Guangdong
hooded sweatshirt / hoodie
joined as a string of pearls / in rapid succession / alignment / Renju, a Japanese game, also called Gomoku or five-in-a-row
to fire (a weapon) in rapid succession
(idiom) continuous; unending
electrical lead; connecting line / (Tw) to connect (to a network, device etc); to go online; connection / (congressional) caucus
chop / rib meat
connector
dual attachment station
Special Duties Unit, Hong Kong special police
to continue to discuss a poem over a long period
cannon firing for days on end (idiom); enveloped in the flames of war
hyphen
to be related / to entail / to involve / joint (liability etc)
to bear joint responsibility for sth / joint liability (law)
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)
barrage of gunfire (often used as a metaphor for rapid speech)
repeatedly (say something)

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