連 — 10 strokes ／ Radical「辶」
道7Elementary year 4 ／ 10 strokes ／ Radical「辶」
- On
- レンれん · ren
- Kun
- つら(なる)・つら(ねる)・つ(れる)tsura(naru) · tsura(neru) · tsu(reru)
- Meaning
- connect, link, take along
Stroke order
Origin
An associative character combining 辶 (movement) and 車 (cart). From carts moving in a row it came to mean to link, connect, or take along.
Readings and examples
| Onレンれんren | 連合れんごう連続れんぞく関連かんれん |
|---|---|
| Kunつらなるtsuranaru | 連なるつらなる |
| Kunつらねるtsuraneru | 連ねるつらねる |
| Kunつれるtsureru | 連れるつれる連れつれ |
Readings and example words from the official Jōyō kanji table.
Compounds
- 連続れんぞく
continuation, series
- 連休れんきゅう
consecutive holidays
- 連盟れんめい
- 連絡れんらく
- 連鎖れんさ
- 連峰れんぽう
- 連邦れんぽう
- 連亙れんこう
Example
三日連続で雨だった。
It rained three days running.
Nearby characters
The line style shows how they connect
CompoundRadicalReading
Stroke data from: KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0)