Kanji連
Readingれん
Frequency69%
Used in (812 in total)
company; lot; people; troupe; company (of musicians)
contacting; (making) contact; connection (with a train, bus, etc.); joining (a railway line, etc.); connection (between matters, incidents, etc.); relation
continuation; succession; series; continuous
two reams (of paper); 1000 sheets (of paper); stanza; verse; tribe (in taxonomy); forecast (bet); bet which predicts the top 2 finishers (i.e. quinella or perfecta bet)
relation; connection; relevance
cooperation; coordination; collaboration; integration; linking
union; combination; association; RENGO (Japanese Trade Union Confederation)
series; chain; two reams (i.e. 1000 sheets of paper); verse; stanza
federation (of states); confederation; commonwealth; union
association (of ideas); being reminded (of something); suggestion
to get in touch with
taking (a suspect to the police); dragging (someone) away
contact information (address, phone number, etc.)
serialization; serialisation; serial story
allied forces; the Allies (e.g. in WWII)
regular customer; regular patron; regular visitor; constant companion
rapid firing; continuous firing; firing in quick succession
day after day; every day
occurring in succession; doing in succession; firing in rapid succession; volley of shots; volley (of questions, abuse, etc.); stream
chain; series; connection; linkage
Soviet Union; USSR
connection; linking; joining; coupling; attaching; junction
operating together; working together; being linked (to); being tied (to); being connected (with); interlocking
league; federation; union
repeated blows; striking repeatedly; barrage; consecutive hits (e.g. in boxing, baseball)
calling repeatedly (e.g. someone's name); shouting repeatedly; pronouncing successively (usu. repeating a syllable with voicing, as in "tsuzuku")
to (be able to) make contact; to (be able to) get in touch
to contact; to get in touch with; to check in (with)
contacting; getting in touch; communication; call; message
United Nations; UN
consecutive holidays
allied nations; the Allies (World War I, World War II); Allied powers
to keep in contact (e.g. by phone, mail, etc.); to keep in touch
series of battles; successive battles
relatedness; associativity; relation; relationship; relevance
regimental commander
consecutive victories; series of victories; winning streak
consecutive defeats; series of defeats
(occurring) in a chain reaction; chain-like; sequential
message; informative matter
connection; linking; linkage; link; liaison; contact
connection; relation; linkage
feeling of solidarity
unbroken; uninterrupted; continuous
UN forces; UN troops
three-stranded
solidarity; joint; collective
implication (in a crime); involvement; (arch.) sitting in a row (in the same seat)
collective responsibility; joint liability
coaxial mounting; multiple mounting
connection; link (on a web page)
successive championships
bipartite; in two parts; double
joint signature
trees with entwined branches; intimate male and female relationship
consecutive; continuous; successive
(connecting) passageway; accessway; walk-through; skyway; sky bridge
contact network; phone tree; contact information for relevant people (in a given organization)
mountain range; Lian Shan (Xia-period method of Chinese divination)
links; chain; shackle; linking
mountain range
four-handed performance (on the piano)
association; federation
renga (early Japanese poetry form); linked verse; poetic dialogue
to connect; to correlate; to associate; to relate; to link
taking someone away by force; transportation (e.g. for forced labor); forced transport (e.g. to a police station)
planting a field with the same crop each year; repeated cultivation; collaborative literary work; story made up by several writers working on it in turn; series (of novels); cycle (of poems, songs)
every day and every night
chain reaction; nuclear chain reaction
colleagues; cronies; merry men
affiliated company; affiliated business
Dalian (China)
to lose contact with (someone); to stop communication with; to go missing; to disappear
three-day weekend; long weekend; three holidays in a row
joint surety; surety jointly and severally liable; co-maker; co-endorser; co-signer
gang of young toughs; hooligans; hoodlums; hoods; yobbos
discontinuous; discontinuous
end of consecutive holidays
staying for two or more nights in a row (e.g. at a hotel)
liaison group; liaison committee; liaison council
continuous shooting (photography); consecutive shooting; rapid shooting
coalition; alliance; union; standing side-by-side
(good) teamwork; team play; (close) cooperation; coordination; collaboration
repeating firearm; a repeater
former Soviet Union
Soviet Union; Union of Soviet Socialist Republics; USSR
chained list; linked list
binary star
connector; coupler
long holiday (consisting of one or two weekends and multiple public holidays; esp. Golden Week)
drama serial
pretense; affectation; showiness
joint signature
United Nations (UN) Headquarters
a series of arson cases
Commonwealth of Nations (formerly British Commonwealth)
correspondence notebook (e.g. between teacher and parents); contact notebook; communication notebook
every evening; night after night
reporting, contacting, and consultation
double-barreled gun
federal parliament; federal congress
Japan Business Federation; Keidanren
jointly sealed covenant; compact under joint signatures; petition
pitching in consecutive games; making multiple posts (on a website); posting multiple comments
repeated cultivation damage (same crop, same soil); continuous cropping hazard; replant failure
joint seal; joint signatures
three wins in a row
mounting for two or more guns (e.g. naval turret, tank)
repeated events (e.g. meetings, drinking sessions); series of events; streak; dealer continuing as dealer and east after winning; dealer keep
waxwing (any bird of family Bombycillidae)
off-shoot; noble (family) sibling
consecutive tournament victories
baren; disk-shaped rubbing pad for pressing paper when making a print from a wood block
linked verse; couplet; renku
related information; relevant information
serial; serialized novel; serialised novel
joint liability on guarantee
track-and-field association; athletics association
working consecutive days (without a holiday)
federal law; federal legislation
United Nations Security Council
consecutive number; serial number
six-chambered (revolver)
Federal Bureau of Investigation (US); FBI
simultaneous equations; system of equations
The Confederate States of America; The Confederacy; CSA
United Nations General Assembly; General Assembly of the United Nations
button mashing (e.g. in video games); repeated button-pushing
Russian Federation
every year; year after year
scoring in succession (points, sets, etc.)
playing to the gallery; showing off; pretence; pretense
weeping forsythia (Forsythia suspensa); weeping golden bell
system of guilt by association (especially that of Japanese election law, which stipulates that an elected official may lose his position if someone in his campaign commits a crime)
spin-off merchandise; related merchandise
regimental colors; regimental colours
continuous use; chronic use
federation of states; confederation of nations
continuative form (of a Japanese verb or adjective); conjunctive form; masu stem (of a verb)
sequence photographs; serial photographs; photographic strip
Confederate States of America
variant of gobang (game)
federal state; federation
alliance (esp. originally of individual member states of the Six Kingdoms with the Qin dynasty)
related article; related story
continuous transformation; continuous mapping
federal police (US, Brazil, Australia, etc.)
line of discontinuity; (weather) front
Soviet Union; Union of Soviet Socialist Republics; USSR
one's followers or hangers-on
Secretary-General of the United Nations
complicity; implication; involvement
attributive form (of a Japanese verb or adjective)
federal president (e.g. in Germany)
Coalition of the Willing (nations who supported America's preemptive strike in Iraq in 2003)
United Nations resolution; UN resolution
chain-reaction bankruptcy; chain bankruptcy
prefectural party chapter
association area (of the cerebral cortex)
concatenation expression
perfecta (bet); exacta; straight forecast
spending the night out (e.g. at a brothel); staying out
morning soap opera; morning television serial
United Nations member; UN member state
strengthening of a partnership (esp. between nations); reinforcing a collaborative relationship
related equipment; related device
dapple gray (horse coat color); dapple grey
alliance (of the Six Kingdoms against the Qin dynasty, and of individual Kingdoms with the Qin dynasty); (tactic of) making and breaking alliances (to benefit oneself as the occasion demands); resorting to alliances as a diplomatic expedient
related item; related topic
consecutive occurrences
sandhi; liaison; trill
winning successively; defeating one's enemy in succession
continued fraction
consolidated sales; consolidated net sales
related (relevant) matters; matters relevant to the subject
International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources; IUCN
continuous operation (of a machine, etc.); continuous running
Commonwealth of Nations (formerly British Commonwealth)
tuplet (e.g. triplet)
pre-noun adjectival; adnominal adjective
sharing one's lot with another; being in the same boat
goldthread (Coptis japonica)
Liberal League (Japanese political party, 1994-2005)
alliance of two or more countries under one monarch
linkage; co-movement; interrelation; interconnectedness
double heading (using two locomotives at the front of a train); double-headed train; doubleheader
ruling coalition party
continuing offense (multiple consecutive offenses treated a single crime; repealed in 1947); continuing offence
related industries; associated industries
latticework
labour union; labor union
worldly woman
I am writing to you; I am (taking the liberty of) getting in touch with you
Coalition Red Army (defunct Japanese armed militant group)
association (e.g. of two concepts)
United Nations organ; UN organ
continuous shooting (camera)
UN Charter; Charter of the United Nations
related product; related products
Diet members' caucus; caucus of the Diet
coalition cabinet; coalition government
consolidated balance sheet
Diet members caucus; caucus of the Diet
haikai no renga (humorous, often vulgar style of renga which emerged in the 16th century)
Model United Nations; Model UN
grand coalition; grand alliance
pre-noun adjectival; adnominal adjective
Secretary-General of the United Nations
Shinpūren; organization of discontented former samurai (early Meiji period)
spending all one's time in idle amusement away from home; being absorbed in self-indulgent pleasures
nine gates; winning hand composed of 1-1-1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8-9-9-9 of the same suit plus one additional tile of the same suit
flail (for threshing grain)
de-facto embassy; liaison office
finishing within the top 2 (in sports, games, etc.); achieving first or second place
kanji "fire" radical at bottom
Federal Republic of Germany; Federal Republic of Germany (1949-1990); West Germany
(Tokyo) party chapter
related term; associated words
community cooperation; regional cooperation; local cooperation
compound word; phrase; collocation; copula
Swiss Confederation (Switzerland)
multiple entry; listing
grassroots group; spontaneous assembly of ordinary people
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland; UK
UN Food and Agriculture Organization (Organisation); FAO
door-to-door community police visits
FIFA; Fédération Internationale de Football Association; International Federation of Football Association
accessway; access road; connecting path
performance by two or more musicians playing similar instruments
rendaku; sequential voicing; in Japanese, an unvoiced sound becoming voiced when it is the initial consonant of the non-initial portion of a compound or prefixed word
doing in unison; doing together; doing en masse
connecting station; station where you change
Federal Bureau of Investigation (USA); FBI
conjunction
Federation of Electric Power Companies; FEPC
General Headquarters (office of the Supreme Commander of the Allied Powers; 1945-1952); GHQ
double-barreled gun
related death; death indirectly caused (by an accident, disease, etc.)
United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization; UNESCO
follow-up question; related question; interpellation on related matters
copula; connective
series of holidays with one or two workdays in between
logotype; kanji compound
United Nations Children's Fund; UNICEF
quinella (bet); dual forecast; reverse forecast
mokumokuren; spirit that appears as rows of eyes (usu. on a shōji)
commissura; commissurae; commissure; commissural
dialect continuum; dialect chain
United Nations Conference on the Human Environment
de-facto embassy; liaison office
Coordinating Committee for Earthquake Prediction
Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers (in Japan); SCAP
International Association of Athletics Federations; IAAF
General Headquarters, Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers (1945-1952); GHQ
Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees; UNHCR
Federal Communications Commission (USA); FCC
modifier of a non-inflectable word
Japan High School Baseball Federation (abbr)
Coordinating Committee for Prediction of Volcanic Eruptions
United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)
missed delivery notice; undeliverable item notice
sequential art or pictures (type of printed, graphic storytelling, differentiated from manga by its liberal use of page space, often only one panel per page, and sparing use of dialogue)
International Swimming Federation; FINA
commerce and industry association
modifier of an inflectable word
quinella (bet); dual forecast; reverse forecast
bracket win; bracket quinella
sweet pea (Lathyrus odoratus)
United Nations University (abbr.); UN University; UNU
Japan Association of Athletics Federations (abbr); JAAF
financial contributions to the UN made by member-nations
clutch (mechanism)
Japanese Association of Religious Organizations
communication; connection; joining together
foreign cooperation; international cooperation; external integration
associative relationship; federated relationship; paradigmatic relation
(Associate) Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
interlock; interlocking device
consolidated basis
Articles of Confederation (1781)
General Headquarters, Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers (1945-1952); GHQ
Association of Southeast Asia
continuous; unbroken; uninterrupted
World Federation of Trade Unions; WFTU
United Nations Development Program; UNDP
the literary set
multi-level marketing; MLM; network marketing; pyramid selling
Federation Aeronautique Internationale; International Aeronautical Federation; FAI
connection (interline) ticket
perfecta (bet); exacta; straight forecast
United Nations Associations Test of English; UNATE
United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees; UNHCR
United Nations Environment Programme (Program); UNEP
articulated bus; bendy bus
piano piece for four hands; composition for piano four-hands
Commonwealth of Australia
rapid (weapons) fire; hail of bullets
implicated offense (where the means or result constitutes a separate offense); connected offense
common soldier; rank and file (of a political party)
Licensed Agency for Relief of Asia (LARA)
Union of South Africa (1910-1961)
hemolytic streptococcus
US federal (agency, etc.)
federal district (esp. in Russia)
spinach (Spinacia oleracea)
padre; title for Portuguese Jesuits who came to Japan in the 16th century; Christianity; Christian
river palanquin; river litter (vehicle)
(Osaka, Kyoto) party chapter
wooden pestle
sticker bombing (in messaging apps); posting an inordinate amount of large emoji in a chat
personal union (between two or more states)
United Nations Human Rights Council; UNHRC
United Nations Human Rights Council (abbr); UNHRC
a rosary; a string of beads
connected person; related parties
All-Japan Federation of Student Self-Government Associations; Zengakuren
International League for Human Rights
United Nations University; UN University; UNU
Japanese Federation of the Deaf; JFD
Japan Federation of Certified Tax Accountant's Association
continuous distribution
Federation of Independent Unions of Japan (1956-1987) (abbr)
real union (between two or more states)
Union of the Comoros
consolidated operations
All Japan High School Athletic Federation (abbr)
Division of Ceramics in Medicine, Biology and Biomimetics
Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights; OHCHR
Automobile Dealers Association
Nippon Keidanren (Japan Business Federation) (abbr)
policy of alignment with the United Nations; UN-centrism
Japan Federation of Employers' Associations (abbr)
National Federation of Employees' Pensioners' Associations (abbr.)
Japan Association of Athletics Federations; JAAF
International Union of Physiological Sciences
sandhi; renjō; morphological change of an initial syllable of the second kanji under the influence of the historical coda of the first kanji in a word
(provincial branch of the) National Welfare Federation of Agricultural Cooperatives
Japan Federation of Bar Associations (abbr)
Confederate States of America
Japan Dentists Federation (abbr)
All-Japan Federation of Student Self-Government Associations (abbr); Zengakuren
General Federation of Private Railway Workers Unions of Japan (abbr)
Centrist Reform Alliance (political party formed in 2026)
genitive case; adnominal case
expanded system of guilt by association in Japanese election law, which stipulates that an elected official may lose his position if someone in his campaign commits a crime
Federation Internationale de l'Automobile; FIA
United Daily News (Taiwanese newspaper)
degree of association; relevance ratio
Japan Federation of Economic Organizations
Japan Amateur Baseball Association
National Association of Prefectural Credit Federation of Agricultural Cooperatives
International Federation of Automatic Control
General Assembly of the United Nations; United Nations General Assembly
League of Japan Abacus Associations
International Coalition of Fisheries Associations; ICFA
Family Federation for World Peace and Unification; Unification Church
Federation Internationale Pharmaceutique; International Pharmaceutical Federation
UN Association of the United States of America; UNA-USA
bulb with reservoir; double balloon
inflation-indexed bonds; inflation-linked bonds
International Federation for Victory over Communism (group affiliated with the former Unification Church)
Union Internationale des Chemins de Fer
coalition of the Socialist Party and the Komeito
National Welfare Federation of Agricultural Cooperatives (abbr)
National Federation of Health Insurance Societies (Kenporen)
pines with entwined branches
World Federation of United Nations Associations
Special Session of the United Nations General Assembly
United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East; UNRWA
International Association of Classification Societies
International Solidarity Movement; ISM
Association of International Instructors; AII; US YMCA diving education system founded 1959
Japan Construction Trade Union Confederation
International Gymnastics Federation
explicit link (process definition)
United Nations Department of Global Communications; UNDGC
communicating vessels
JA Bank (abbr)
continuous shooting speed (photo)
successive tweets; series of tweets; (Twitter) thread
United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD)
International Federation of Accountants; IFAC
opposition coalition party
official languages of the UN (Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian and Spanish)
continuous-feed paper; fan-fold paper
Universal Peace Federation (affiliate of the Unification Church); UPF
performance-based pay; achievement-based pay; payment linked to performance
linebreeding; continuous back crossing
long and uninterrupted (unbroken)
consolidated taxation system; consolidated tax payment system
The Federation of Music Producers Japan (abbr); FMJ
United Nations committee
to do something impossible; (lit.) to disembowel oneself with a pestle
the United Nations flag
United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon; UNIFIL
federal district (e.g. in India)
combo; chain; continuous techniques; renzoku waza
continuous forms; continuous forms paper
Kansai Economic Federation
Markov chain Monte Carlo methods; MCMC methods
genome-wide association study; GWAS
police contact form; voluntary form filled out with one's contact information for the police to use in emergencies, etc.
continuous value
interindustry relations table; input-output table
Peace for Vietnam Committee (1965-1974) (abbr)
forecast (bet); bet which predicts the top 2 finishers (i.e. quinella or perfecta bet)
tuplet (e.g. triplet)
graphic display
implicit link (process definition)
disaster-related death; catastrophe-related death
International Sumo Federation (highest body in amateur sumo)
International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions; IFLA
sequential art or pictures (type of printed, graphic storytelling, differentiated from manga by its liberal use of page space, often only one panel per page, and sparing use of dialogue)
federal police (US, Brazil, Australia, etc.)
Association of Korean Residents in Japan (abbr)
International Federation of the Red Cross; IFRC
UN Monitoring, Verification and Inspection Commission; UNMOVIC
hemolytic streptococcal infection; group A beta-hemolytic streptococcus infection; GABHS
JF Marine Bank (abbr)
associative storage; content addressable storage
bracket win; bracket quinella
weight of 1000 sheets of paper; basis weight
weight of 1000 sheets of paper; ream weight
sex establishment (as regulated by a specific Japanese law)
Trans-Pacific Partnership; Trans-Pacific Strategic Economic Partnership Agreement; TPP
tiles matching both the round wind and one's seat wind; pung (or kong) of these tiles (meld)
International Transport Workers' Federation; ITF
British Equestrian Federation
reserve bank; Federal Reserve Bank (US)
policy-related; policy based; policy relevant
reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction; RT-PCR
Federation Dentaire Internationale
International Table Tennis Federation; ITTF
chained list; linked list
renpitsu brush; brush made by joining together several brushes in a row
Shindo Renmei (Japanese terrorist group active in Brazil in the 1940s)
member states of the former Soviet bloc
union territory (e.g. in India); federal territory
Federated States of Micronesia
Federation of Malaya (1948-1963)
se-tenant; different stamps (labels, etc.) printed together on the one sheet
rengo; Go played by two teams of multiple players taking turns
continued proportion
National Federation of Health Insurance Societies (abbr)
federal (budget) deficit
joint carriage; through-ticketing; transportation of passengers or freight handled by two or more companies via an arrangement
secret balloting with multiple entries
bus tie (electrical)
Pacific League of Professional Baseball Clubs
federal city (e.g. Moscow and St Petersburg in Russia)
Petroleum Association of Japan; PAJ
Trans-Pacific Partnership; Trans-Pacific Strategic Economic Partnership Agreement; TPP
United Federation of Planets (Star Trek)
Federation of American Hospitals; FAH
Trans-Pacific Partnership; Trans-Pacific Strategic Economic Partnership Agreement; TPP
General Association of Korean Residents in Japan (abbr.); Chongryon
monilethrix; moniliform hair; beaded hair
Bundesrat (lower house of the German parliament)
linkage group (genetics)
Japan Petroleum Development Association
Union of South Africa (1910-1961)
coordination of local clinics and hospitals
Haibane Renmei (2002 anime series)
British Iron and Steel Federation
Pan-Green Coalition (Taiwan political bloc)
Pan-Blue Coalition (Taiwan political bloc)
Korean golden bells (Forsythia koreana)
yellowback sea bream (Taius tumifrons); yellow porgy
Lathyrus quinquenervius (species of vetchling)
Bohemian waxwing (Bombycilla garrulus)
Chinese golden bells (Forsythia viridissima); greenstem forsythia
Japanese waxwing (species of passerine bird, Bombycilla japonica)
extending in a row