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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
lit. reins together and carriages level (idiom); keeping exactly abreast of one another / running neck and neck
chain store
HSK 7-9
to link / to peg (currency) / gang (gears) / continuously / serial verb construction
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
continuous / unceasing
to interlock / to be linked / chain (store etc)
HSK 7-9
fighting and winning a series of battles (idiom); ever victorious
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
continuity
serial killer
continuous / unbroken / uninterrupted / extending forever into the distance (of mountain range, river etc)
HSK 7-9
company (of troops)
communicating vessels (in scientific experiment)
consecutive defeats / to lose several times in a row
hyphen
to treat as guilty those associated with an offender (family, neighbors etc)
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 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
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *連* | 連* | *連
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
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)
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
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)
tuplet (music) / sandhi (phonetics)
renga
linking verb
concerted action / to collude (in dishonesty)
Lianyungang, prefecture-level city in Jiangsu Province 江蘇省|江苏省
to take even the cooking pots (idiom) / to clean out / to wipe out
hyphen (punct.)
pattern matching (puzzle game) / matching (type of test question in which presented items are to be paired up)
prolonged spell of rainy weather
pantyhose; tights / CL: 雙|双
liaison (in phonetics)
conjunction
to put together / linking / successive / a cluster
TV series
to cosign / to countersign
chain store
Forsythia
one after the other / in succession (idiom)
together with / along with
chain
tie (music)
consecutive serial numbers / chain (of supermarkets, hotels etc) / hyphen
company commander
to cajole / to sweet talk sb into doing sth
day after day / for several days running
continuum
serialized / published as a serial (in a newspaper)
structured note (finance)
(physics) chain reaction / (idiom) chain reaction; series of events each caused by the previous one
(coll.) to work non-stop; to work around the clock
repeatedly / again and again
to run quickly / to rush / to gallop
conjoined twins / Siamese twins
Lien Chan (1936-), Taiwanese politician, former vice-president and chairman of Guomintang

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