連 — take along, lead, join

れん連 take along

Grade 4 Japanese school grade level in which this kanji is taught. Grade 1 is first year of elementary school. 10 strokes calendar communication

U+9023 Unicode hex codepoint — a unique identifier for this character in the Unicode standard. Freq #30 Frequency rank among the ~2,500 most common kanji in Japanese newspapers. Lower number = more common. Heisig #305 Index in James Heisig's "Remembering the Kanji" — a popular textbook that teaches kanji through mnemonics and stories.

Meanings

take along
lead
join
connect
party
gang
clique

word

れん ren On'yomi On'yomi (音読み) — the Sino-Japanese reading, derived from Chinese pronunciation. Most commonly used in compound words (jukugo).

連(れん) ren group 関(かん) 連(れん) kanren relation 連(れん) 続(ぞく) renzoku continuation 国(こく) 連(れん) kokuren United Nations 連(れん) 合(ごう) rengou union ソ連(れん) soren Soviet Union 連(れん) 中(ちゅう) renchuu group 一(いち) 連(れん) ichiren series

つら tsura Kun'yomi Kun'yomi (訓読み) — the native Japanese reading of this kanji. Used when the kanji appears alone or with okurigana (trailing hiragana).

連(つら) ねる tsuraneru to line up 連(つら) なる tsuranaru to extend

つ tsu Kun'yomi Kun'yomi (訓読み) — the native Japanese reading of this kanji. Used when the kanji appears alone or with okurigana (trailing hiragana).

連(つ) れる tsureru to take along 連(つ) れ tsure companion

Stroke order

Stroke data from KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0)

Components

Composed of

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辶 road

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Kangxi Radical The Kangxi radicals are a set of 214 character components standardized in the 1716 Kangxi Dictionary. Every kanji is classified under one radical, used for dictionary lookup and character organization.

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