lián

lotus

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound. Simplified form of .

Components
艹 meaning component

  Meaning component

caocǎo

  

grass

is a component form of .

连 sound component

  Sound component

lián

  

connect, join, link

Evolution

莲 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
莲 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
莲 Traditional script Modern

Traditional script

Modern
莲 Simplified script Modern

Simplified script

Modern
Definitions

() 

lián

lotus, water lily; paradise; lotus

Most common words with 莲
Freq.
Word
Meaning

lotus

莲花

water-lily

榴莲

durian fruit

莲子

lotus seed

莲藕

lotus root

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 3.5239% of movies

2045th most common character in movies

1837th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

10

Traditional

Unicode

U+83B2


This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
Creative Commons License