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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
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
to interlock / to be linked / chain (store etc)
HSK 7-9
chain store
HSK 7-9
(idiom) stumbling and crawling; scrambling; frantically trying to escape
HSK 7-9
coordinated sequence of strategic moves
to kick and beat (idiom)
to connect / to communicate / to relate / (math.) connected
to combine / to join / to unite / alliance / same as 聯合|联合
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
(idiom) chain reaction
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *連* | 連* | *連
surname Lian
serialized / published as a serial (in a newspaper)
together with / along with
repeatedly / again and again
variant of 聯結|联结 / (Tw) link (on a website); hyperlink
connector
to be related / to entail / to involve / joint (liability etc)
to bear joint responsibility for sth / joint liability (law)
conjoined (twins) / one-piece (garment)
to link / to connect
to fire (a weapon) in rapid succession
reaching the sky / for days on end / incessantly
chain
concerted action / to collude (in dishonesty)
continuity
(of two people in different locations) to sing or otherwise perform together using communications technology
Lianzhou, a county-level city in Qingyuan City 清遠市|清远市, Guangdong
to link up (disparate elements) / coherent (narrative, argument etc)
to take even the cooking pots (idiom) / to clean out / to wipe out
mittens
repeatedly (say something)
consecutive serial numbers / chain (of supermarkets, hotels etc) / hyphen
(idiom) continuous; unending
liaison (in phonetics)
both principal and interest / capital plus profit
(coll.) to work non-stop; to work around the clock
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)
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
conjunction
prolonged spell of rainy weather
Liancheng, a county in Longyan City 龍巖市|龙岩市, 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)
day after day / for several days running
to cosign / to countersign
chain store
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)
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 City 清遠市|清远市, Guangdong
to batter / combo (hit) (gaming) / (volleyball, table tennis etc) double hit / double contact
Liannan Yao Autonomous County, in Qingyuan City 清遠市|清远市, Guangdong
Lianshan district of Huludao city 葫蘆島市|葫芦岛市, Liaoning
Lianyun district of Lianyungang city 連雲港市|连云港市, Jiangsu
Lianyun district of Lianyungang city 連雲港市|连云港市, Jiangsu
to join jade annuli / fig. to combine two good things
repeatedly
Horizontal Alliance, clique of the School of Diplomacy 縱橫家|纵横家 during the Warring States Period (425-221 BC)
communicating vessels (in scientific experiment)
(old) to rank first in the imperial examinations at the provincial capital, the national capital and the palace successively / (sports etc) to achieve three successes in a row (three matches in a row, three goals in a match etc)
Lianping, a county in Heyuan City 河源市, Guangdong
(music) tuplet
to use (two words etc) together / to use (sth) continuously
variant of 聯絡|联络
to link / to peg (currency) / gang (gears) / continuously / serial verb construction
variant of 聯袂|联袂
one after the other / in succession (idiom)
copula (linguistics)
variant of 聯翩|联翩
lit. reins together and carriages level (idiom); keeping exactly abreast of one another / running neck and neck
pantyhose; tights / CL: 雙|双
pushing and pulling (idiom)
renga
Lien Chan (1936-), Taiwanese politician, former vice-president and chairman of Guomintang
to pull up by the roots / to uproot
pattern matching (puzzle game) / matching (type of test question in which presented items are to be paired up)

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