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恋

戀
liàn
verb #2,312

Meanings

  1. 1 to love
  2. 2 to long for
  3. 3 attached to

Examples

他们在恋爱。
Tāmen zài liàn'ài.
They are in love.
她很留恋那个地方。
Tā hěn liúliàn nàge dìfang.
She is very attached to that place.

Tips

usage
Common in 恋爱 (liàn'ài, romantic love) and 留恋 (liúliàn, reluctant to leave).

Components

radical
心 xīn
heart; mind
Bottom heart radical — the indexing component. Marks 恋 as a heart-state: love, attachment, longing, romantic affection. The whole compound says "heart bound up in something." Same heart-base anchors 想 (think of), 情 (feeling), 念 (miss), 怒 (anger), 忘 (forget).
phonetic
亦 yì
also (here phonetic shorthand)
Top 亦 — replaces the dense 䜌 phonetic of traditional 戀. Supplies the sound by simplification convention (the 1956 reform regularized many 䜌-tops down to 亦). The "also" meaning of 亦 has no semantic role here — pure cursive shorthand. Same simplification pattern in 变, 弯, 蛮, 湾.

Stroke Order

恋 liàn