聯

聯 (Kangxi radical 128, 耳+11, 17 strokes, cangjie input 尸十女戈廿 (SJVIT), four-corner 1217₂, composition ⿰耳𢇇)

• 壣, 㶌, 㺦, 𤒤, 𪚄/𪚁

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 969, character 5
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 29153
• Dae Jaweon: page 1419, character 14
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2796, character 3
• Unihan data for U+806F

• Unihan data for U+F997

Historical forms of the character 聯
Shang	Western Zhou	Warring States	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Chu slip and silk script	Small seal script

Ideogrammic compound (會意／会意) : 耳 (“ear”) + 絲 (“silk”).

According to Duan Yucai, 聯 and 連／连 are two characters for a same word, with the former used in the Zhou dynasty and the latter in the Han dynasty.

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-rjan (“equal; to place in a row; to align; row”); related to 連 (OC *ren) (STEDT; Schuessler, 2007).

聯

1. to connect; to join
2. to associate; to ally
3. (literary or dialectal) to sew; to stitch

   alt. forms: 連／连, 孿／孪 (luán), 縺／𦈐 (lián), 褳／裢 (lián)

   聯衫／联衫 [Cantonese]  ―  lyun⁴ saam¹ [Jyutping]  ―  to sew clothes

   聯咗四針／联咗四针 [Cantonese]  ―  lyun⁴ zo² sei³ zam¹ [Jyutping]  ―  to stitch four stitches

4. couplet

   春聯／春联  ―  chūnlián  ―  Spring Festival couplets

   頸聯／颈联  ―  jǐnglián  ―  the fifth and sixth lines of a lüshi

• (to sew):

• “聯”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎^[1], 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

1. Alternative form of 連

In modern Japanese, 聯 is mostly replaced by 連, due to the deprecation of non-tōyō kanji caused by the Japanese script reform.

• Go-on: れん (ren)
• Kan-on: れん (ren)
• Kun: つらなる (tsuranaru, 聯なる); つらねる (tsuraneru, 聯ねる)
• Nanori: つらね (tsurane)

聯 (eumhun 잇달 련 (itdal ryeon), word-initial (South Korea) 잇달 연 (itdal yeon))

1. Hanja form^? of 련/연 (“connect, join”).
2. Hanja form^? of 련/연 (“associate, ally”).

聯: Hán Nôm readings: liên, lén, lẻn, liền, liễn

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