verb

Meanings

  1. 1 (classical) to adjoin; to lie side by side and connected

Examples

Liǎng kuài tǔdì xiāng lián.
The two pieces of land adjoin each other.

Tips

history
is a classical verb meaning 'to adjoin' and is not used independently in modern Chinese. It stacks the phonetic (to compare / side by side) over the earth radical ; modern Chinese uses 相连 for this idea.
register
Classical and literary only. survives in old texts and dictionaries, not in everyday speech.

Components

radical
earth; ground
The 'earth' radical at the bottom ties the 'adjoin' meaning to land lying next to land. It is the indexing radical.
phonetic
to compare; side by side
The element on top supplies the sound and also lends its 'side by side' sense to the 'adjoin' meaning of .

Stroke Order