lián

connect, join; associate, ally

DEFINITIONS

  • connect, join
  • associate, ally
  • to ally
  • to unite
  • to join
  • (poetry) antithetical couplet

WORDS

國際航空合會 guó jì háng kōng lián hé huì Fédération Aéronautique Internationale (FAI), world body of gliding and aeronautic sports
國際足球合會 guó jì zú qiú lián hé huì FIFA; International Federation of Association Football
國際足 guó jì zú lián abbr. for 國際足球聯合會|国际足球联合会, FIFA, international federation of football associations
國際電信盟 guó jì diàn xìn lián méng International Telecommunications Union; ITU
國際體操合會 guó jì tǐ cāo lián hé huì Fédération Internationale de Gymnastique
基督教民主盟 jī dū jiào mín zhǔ lián méng Christian Democratic Union (German political party)
多明尼加邦 duō míng ní jiā lián bāng the Commonwealth of Dominica (Tw)
多氯苯 duō lǜ lián běn polychlorinated biphenyl; PCB
多米尼加邦 duō mǐ ní jiā lián bāng the Commonwealth of Dominica
大英合王國 dà yīng lián hé wáng guó United Kingdom
太平洋合鐵路 tài píng yáng lián hé tiě lù Union Pacific Railroad
shī lián to lose contact; to be lost
fù lián women's league; women's association
ān lián Allianz, German financial service company
對外絡部 duì wài lián luò bù CCP central committee's external affairs department (i.e. Chinese communist party's foreign office)
對比想 duì bǐ lián xiǎng word association; association of ideas
duì lián rhyming couplet; pair of lines of verse written vertically down the sides of a doorway; CL:副[fu4],幅[fu2]
zuǒ lián the League of the Left-Wing Writers, an organization of writers formed in China in 1930; abbr. for 中國左翼作家聯盟|中国左翼作家联盟[Zhong1 guo2 Zuo3 yi4 Zuo4 jia1 Lian2 meng2]
fù lián Avengers (comics)
德意志邦共和國 dé yì zhì lián bāng gòng hé guó Federal Republic of Germany; former West Germany 1945-1990, now simply Germany
wén lián abbr. for 中國文學藝術界聯合會|中国文学艺术界联合会, China Federation of Literary and Art Circles (CFLAC)
日英軍 rì yīng lián jūn Anglo-Japanese allied army (intervention during Russian revolution and civil war 1917-1922)
易建 yì jiàn lián Yi Jianlian (1987-), Chinese basketball player for the New Jersey Nets (NBA)
春節歡晚會 chūn jié lián huān wǎn huì CCTV New Year's Gala, Chinese New Year special; abbr. to 春晚[Chun1 Wan3]
chūn lián Spring Festival couplet (the first line of which is pasted on the right side of a doorway at New Year, and the second on the left side)