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charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *连* | 连* | *连
to link / to join / to connect / continuously / in succession / including / (used with , etc) even / company (military)
HSK 3
continuous / in a row / serial / consecutive
HSK 3
promptly; at once
HSK 3
serialized drama / dramatic series / show in parts
HSK 3
to link; to join; to connect
HSK 5
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
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
chain store
HSK 7-9
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)
day after day / for several days running
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *连* | 连* | *连
surname Lian
Lianshan district of Huludao city 葫蘆島市|葫芦岛市, Liaoning
to connect / to communicate / to relate / (math.) connected
(gaming or martial arts) a sequence of attacks or moves; combo
chain
to use (two words etc) together / to use (sth) continuously
to link up (disparate elements) / coherent (narrative, argument etc)
to batter / combo (hit) (gaming) / (volleyball, table tennis etc) double hit / double contact
reaching the sky / for days on end / incessantly
electrical lead; connecting line / (Tw) to connect (to a network, device etc); to go online; connection / (congressional) caucus
company (of troops)
Forsythia
Lianping county in Heyuan 河源, Guangdong
successive years / over many years
Lianyun district of Lianyungang city 連雲港市|连云港市, Jiangsu
a one-piece dress
together with / along with
chain reaction
serialized / published as a serial (in a newspaper)
conjunction
lianhuanhua (graphic novel)
two trees that grow together as one / fig. conjugal union
company commander
repeatedly (say something)
to treat as guilty those associated with an offender (family, neighbors etc)
Liancheng, county-level city in Longyan 龍岩|龙岩, Fujian
repeatedly / again and again
conjoined (twins) / one-piece (garment)
to fire (a weapon) in rapid succession
continuous / unceasing
joined as a string of pearls / in rapid succession / alignment / Renju, a Japanese game, also called Gomoku or five-in-a-row
forming a continuous sheet / continuous / contiguous / closely grouped
to be related / to entail / to involve / joint (liability etc)
to pull up by the roots / to uproot
(idiom) stumbling and crawling; scrambling; frantically trying to escape
(coll.) to work non-stop; to work around the clock
(idiom) continuous; unending
to write without lifting one's pen from the paper
concerted action / to collude (in dishonesty)
(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)
tuplet (music) / sandhi (phonetics)
Horizontal Alliance, clique of the School of Diplomacy 縱橫家|纵横家 during the Warring States Period (425-221 BC)
to put together / linking / successive / a cluster
barrage of gunfire (often used as a metaphor for rapid speech)
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)
variant of 聯結|联结
husbands of sisters / brothers-in-law / extremely close (of a relationship)
(of a piece of writing) long and tedious (idiom) / verbose
compound ratio
to cosign / to countersign
to implicate; to get (sb) into trouble / also pr. [lian2lei3] or [lian2lei4]
one after the other / a succession of / a series of
to take even the cooking pots (idiom) / to clean out / to wipe out
(of two people in different locations) to sing or otherwise perform together using communications technology
consecutive defeats / to lose several times in a row
liaison (in phonetics)
Lien Chan (1936-), Taiwanese politician, former vice-president and chairman of Guomintang
variant of 聯絡|联络
to link / to peg (currency) / gang (gears) / continuously / serial verb construction
variant of 聯袂|联袂
repeatedly
to link / to connect
connector
to combine / to join / to unite / alliance / same as 聯合|联合
renga
the same night / that very night / successive nights
pantyhose; tights / CL: 雙|双
consecutive serial numbers / chain (of supermarkets, hotels etc) / hyphen
continuous casting (metallurgy)
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)
Lianyungang, prefecture-level city in Jiangsu Province 江蘇省|江苏省
to join jade annuli / fig. to combine two good things
Lian county in Guangdong
one-piece swimsuit
conjunction
flail
continuity
variant of 聯翩|联翩
pattern matching (puzzle game) / matching (type of test question in which presented items are to be paired up)
ligase
serial killer
to connect to
to share nuptial cup / (fig.) to get married
jumpsuit
hooded sweatshirt / hoodie
continuous function
conjoined twins

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