连
lián HSK3

connect, join, link

连 連 lián
even prepositionadverb
Used with 也 yě or 都 dōu to express emphasis, meaning "even" or "to the extent that".

你连我是谁都不知道。

nǐ lián wǒ shì shéi dōu bù​zhī​dào.

You don't even know who I am.

他连衣服都自己洗。

tā lián yī​fu dōu zì​jǐ xǐ.

He even washes his own clothes.

to link verb
to link; to join; to connect

我们被连在了一起。

wǒ​men bèi lián zài le yī​qǐ.

We are bound together.

continuous adverbadjective
continuous; unending; endless
successively adverb
in succession; one after another; repeatedly

我们不想连输两场比赛。

wǒ​men bù xiǎng lián shū liǎng chǎng bǐ​sài.

We don’t want to lose two games in a row.

including preposition
including; together with; as well as
company
(military) a company; a unit consisting of several platoons
Lian
(surname) the surname Lian

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Frequency
Character
Written text
399th most common 552.0 per million
Movie subtitles
570th most common 245.9 per million appears in 72% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
229.7 per million appears in 59% of films
Written text
291.9 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 4
HSK 3.0
Level 3
Traditional
連
Strokes
7
Unicode
U+8FDE

Sources
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)