Memory phrase for the character: 连

连

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Meaning to link, join, connect, continuously, including

Pronunciation

lián

Explanation

Left: movement 辶, right: vehicle 车 (=車 cart with axle丨 load-area 日 and two wheels 二)

Mnemonic
 
Vehicles and 'movement' are linked.

Radicals

辶 movementIn some cases this radical 廴 is used, but the mnemonics are the same.
连 connect
车 vehicleSimplified from 車. Shows a hand-cart from top: axle 丨, loading area 日, two wheels 二. This sign 车 is similar to the simplified east 东 =東.
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 Vocabulary

相连 xiāng lián  to link; to join; link; connection
连哄带骗 lián hōng dài piàn  to cajole; to sweet talk sb into doing sth
连翘 lián qiáo  Forsythia
连缀动词 lián zhuì dòng cí  linking verb
连缀 lián zhuì  to put together; linking; successive; a cluster
连宵 lián xiāo  the same night; that very night; successive nights
毗连 pí lián  adjoin
祁连山 Qí lián shān  Mt Qilian in Qinhai
连璧 lián bì  to join jade annuli; fig. to combine two good things
连枷 lián jiā  flail; to thresh (using a flail)
连踢带打 lián tī dài dǎ  to kick and beat (idiom)
连踢带打 lián tī dài dǎ  

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