surname Lian

= + : Mnemonic symbol: a chain.

= + : Someone parked their car in the anthill's kitchen. Li Qingzhao is quite angry about it and locks the car up with a long and strong chain. She also leaves a pair of gladiator sandals and a note that if the driver is too bad at parking they should rather use the sandals and walk.
to link / to join / to connect / continuously / in succession / including / (used with 也[ye3], 都[dou1] etc) even / company (military)

= + : Mnemonic symbol: a chain.

= + : Someone parked their car in the anthill's kitchen. Li Qingzhao is quite angry about it and locks the car up with a long and strong chain. She also leaves a pair of gladiator sandals and a note that if the driver is too bad at parking they should rather use the sandals and walk.

连 character breakdown

surname Che
car / vehicle / CL:輛|辆[liang4] / machine / to shape with a lathe / Kangxi radical 159

= + : Charlie Chaplin (ch) is parading in a cabriolet (mnemonic symbol for 车) in front of the elevator (e1), because he wants to establish his new cult. Like all successful leaders, he takes the carrot-and-stick approach: In one hand he's waving with a seven-branched laser sword (七), in the other one he's waving with a cross (十).
war chariot (archaic) / rook (in Chinese chess) / rook (in chess)
to walk (side part of split character)

Chantal Chicken tries out her new gladiator sandals in the observatory's bathroom.

Characters with 连 as component

lotus

= + : Li Qingzhao (li) wants to add lotus (莲) to the anthill's menu, so she sets up a big water tank in the kitchen (an2). In the tank she fixes sheets of artificial lawn (艹) to the bottom of the tank using chains (连) to act as scaffold for the new lotus (莲) plants.
chain / cable (unit of length: 100 fathoms, about 185 m) / chain (unit of length: 66 feet, about 20 m) / to chain / to enchain

= + : Li Qingzhao (li) has been kidnapped and chained down (连) in the anthill's bathroom (an4). Luckily she has a tiny golden harpoon (钅) as a necklace (链) around her neck which she is able to pick up with her mouth, and with which she is able to pick the lock.
sacrificial vessel used for grain offerings / also pr. [lian2]
vessel used for grain offerings / also pr. [lian2]
ripple / tearful
see 槤枷|梿枷[lian2 jia1], flail / to thresh (using a flail)
Hypophthalmichthys moritrix
pouch hung from belt

Words with 连

continuous / in a row / serial / consecutive
together with / along with
company (of troops)
serialized / published as a serial (in a newspaper)
in unbroken succession (idiom)
interconnection
Li Lianjie or Jet Li (1963-), martial arts sportsman, subsequently film star and director
joined as a string of pearls / in rapid succession / alignment / Renju, a Japanese game, also called Gomoku or five-in-a-row

Sentences with 连

lián
jiàn
chèn
shǒu
de
bi̅ng
qì
hái
zhǎo
bu
dào
ma