连連 in English
- to link / to join / to connect / continuously / in succession / including / (used with 也[ye3], 都[dou1] etc) even / company (military)
Stroke order
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Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.
How it used to be written
These are the forms of 連, the traditional character: 连 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Bronze script 春秋晚期 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 11 forms
Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).
Examples
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一个傻瓜问出的问题，能多到连十个智者都顾不及回答。
One idiot can ask more questions than ten wise men can answer.
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一连下了十天雪。
It snowed for ten consecutive days.
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一连串的爆炸使实验室成为废墟。
A series of blasts reduced the laboratory to ruins.
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不仅他们，连我也被老师罚了。
Not only they but also I was scolded by the teacher.
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他法语连读都不会读，更不用说会写了。
He can't read French, much less write it.
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他连自己的名字也不会写。
He cannot so much as write his own name.
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他连问都没问就拿了我的雨伞。
He took my umbrella without so much as asking.
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吐鲁番实在太热了，连政府也控制不了这里的温度。
Turpan is indeed very hot. Even the government is unable to control the temperature.