Jisho

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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

11 strokes
Radical:
silk 糸 (糹)
Parts:
accumulate, involvement, trouble, tie up, continually
On:
ルイ
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
JLPT level N1
1662 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 累 【ルイ】 trouble, harmful effect, evil influence, implication, involvement
  • 累計 【ルイケイ】 cumulative total, accumulated total, total up to now
  • 係累 【ケイルイ】 dependents, family members that one has to support, encumbrances, things that tie one down
  • 累々 【ルイルイ】 in heaps

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
lei4, lei2, lei3
Korean:
ru

Spanish

  • relación
  • conexión
  • compromiso
  • apilar
  • repetidamente
  • una y otra vez

Portuguese

  • acumular
  • envolvimento
  • problemas
  • conexão
  • continuamente

French

  • amasser
  • implication
  • ennuis
  • liens
  • continuellement
1917 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
1811 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
3006 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1284 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
1627 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
2004 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
1060 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1105 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1302 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1508 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
3196 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1652 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2242 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1376 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
27343 Morohashi
2585 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
4469 New Nelson (John Haig)
1364 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1464 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
1475 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
3641 2001 Kanji
5f6.5 The Kanji Dictionary
2-5-6 SKIP code
6090.3 Four corner code
1-46-63 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
7d2f Unicode hex code