Jisho

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10 strokes
Radical:
cart, car
Parts:
flats, counter for houses, eaves
Kun:
のき
On:
ケン
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
JLPT level N2
1416 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 軒 【ケン】 counter for buildings (esp. houses), suffix for a pen name, stage name, etc.
  • 軒昂 【ケンコウ】 high-spirited, in high spirits
  • 一軒一軒 【イッケンイッケン】 each house, every house, house to house, door to door

Kun reading compounds

  • 軒 【のき】 eaves, narrow aisle surrounding the core of a temple building
  • 軒並み 【のきなみ】 row of houses, every house, each house, every door, all, totally, altogether, across the board
  • 傍軒 【そばのき】 barge course

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
xuan1
Korean:
heon

Spanish

  • alero del tejado
  • contador para casas
  • alto

Portuguese

  • apartamentos
  • sufixo para contagem de casas
  • beiral de telhados

French

  • gouttière
  • auvent
  • compteur de maisons
1215 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
1260 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
4611 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
953 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
939 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
1187 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1246 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
508 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1772 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
1851 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
980 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1328 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1667 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
38187 Morohashi
1459 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
5944 New Nelson (John Haig)
1652 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1781 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
1393 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
1555 2001 Kanji
7c3.1 The Kanji Dictionary
1-7-3 SKIP code
5104.0 Four corner code
1-24-14 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
8ed2 Unicode hex code

10 strokes (also 9)
Radical:
walk 辵 (辶, ⻌, ⻍)
Parts:
take along, lead, join, connect, party, gang, clique
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 4
JLPT level N3
30 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 連 【レン】 two reams (of paper), 1000 sheets (of paper), stanza, verse, tribe (in taxonomy), forecast (bet), bet which predicts the top 2 finishers (i.e. quinella or perfecta bet), party, company, group, set, things strung in a line, e.g. pearls, dried fish, spans of a bridge, etc., falcon
  • 連関 【レンカン】 connection, relation, linkage
  • 労連 【ロウレン】 labour union, labor union
  • 常連 【ジョウレン】 regular customer, regular patron, regular visitor, frequenter, constant companion

Kun reading compounds

  • 連なる 【つらなる】 to extend, to stretch out, to stand in a row, to attend, to participate in, to enrol, to enroll, to join, to have a connection, to be related, to be linked
  • 連ねる 【つらねる】 to line up, to put in a row, to add (to a group), to accept (as a member of an organization, etc.), to join (e.g. a list), to link, to put together, to string together (e.g. compliments), to enumerate, to take along with, to bring with
  • 連れる 【つれる】 to take (someone) with one, to bring along, to go with, to be accompanied by

Readings

Japanese names:
ずれ、 つれ、 むらじ、 れ
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
lian2
Korean:
ryeon

Spanish

  • unir
  • acompañar
  • estar junto
  • grupo
  • agrupar

Portuguese

  • Levar pelo caminho
  • primazia
  • unir
  • conectar
  • partido
  • gangue
  • grupo

French

  • emmener
  • se mettre en rang
  • s'unir
  • série
  • parti
  • bande
  • clique
538 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
637 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
607 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
87 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
4702 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
383 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
960 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
1238 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
440 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
446 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
299 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
699 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
3849 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1976 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2672 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
293 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
38902P Morohashi
3103 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
6062 New Nelson (John Haig)
287 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
305 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
101 The Kanji Way to Japanese Language Power (Dale Crowley)
560 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
1555 2001 Kanji
2q7.2 The Kanji Dictionary
3-3-7 SKIP code
3530.0 Four corner code
1-47-02 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
9023 Unicode hex code