れん
Meanings
Noun
1. two reams (of paper); 1000 sheets (of paper)
ateji for "ream"; also written as 嗹
2. stanza; verse
also written as 聯
3. tribe (in taxonomy)
4. forecast (bet); bet which predicts the top 2 finishers (i.e. quinella or perfecta bet)
Suffix
5. party; company; group; set
Counter
6. things strung in a line, e.g. pearls, dried fish, spans of a bridge, etc.
also written as 聯
7. falcon
Pitch accent
Used in vocabulary (99 in total)
company; lot; bunch; gang; pack; those guys
connection; relation; linkage
training; drill; practice; discipline
repeated events (meetings, drinking sessions, etc.); series of events; streak; dealer continuing as dealer and east after winning; dealer keep
commerce and industry association
company; lot; bunch; troupe; company (of musicians)
series; chain; two reams (i.e. 1000 sheets of paper); verse; stanza
repeated blows; striking repeatedly; barrage; consecutive hits (e.g. boxing, baseball)
regular customer; regular patron; frequenter; constant companion
relation; connection; relevance
continuation; succession; series
solidarity; joint; collective
taking (a suspect to the police); dragging (someone) away
consecutive victories; series of victories
league; federation; union; alliance
union; alliance; combination; RENGO (Japanese Trade Union Confederation)
pitching in consecutive games; making multiple posts (on a website); posting multiple comments
series of battles; successive battles
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)
serialization; serialisation; serial story
linked verse; couplet
multiple entry; listing
running continuously; firing in rapid succession
gang of young toughs; hooligans; hoodlums; hoods; yobbos
every evening; night after night
scoring in succession (points, sets, etc.)
continuous use
double heading (using two locomotives at the front of a train); double-headed train; doubleheader
company; lot; bunch; troupe; company (of musicians)
association (of ideas); being reminded (of something); suggestion
rapid-fire
Soviet Union; Union of Soviet Socialist Republics; USSR
Soviet Union; Union of Soviet Socialist Republics; USSR
regiment
operating together; working together; being linked (to); being tied (to); being connected (with); interlocking
trees with entwined branches; intimate male and female relationship
regimental commander
bipartite; in two parts; double
unbroken; uninterrupted; on and on; continuous
(Tokyo) party chapter
implication (in a crime); involvement; (arch.) sitting in a row (in the same seat)
three-stranded
coaxial mounting; multiple mounting
joint signature
mountain range; Lian Shan (Xia period method of Chinese divination)
Dalian (China)
links; chain; shackle; linking
four handed performance (on the piano)
repeated events (meetings, drinking sessions, etc.); series of events; streak; dealer continuing as dealer and east after winning; dealer keep
Diet members' caucus; caucus of the Diet
joint signature
drama serial
binary star
Japan Business Federation; Keidanren
reporting, contacting, and consultation
joint seal; joint signatures
off-shoot; noble (family) sibling
track-and-field association; athletics association
consecutive number; serial number
every year; year after year
regimental colors; regimental colours
(taxonomical) subtribe
attributive form (of a Japanese verb or adjective)
prefectural party chapter
complicity; implication; involvement
(Osaka, Kyoto) party chapter
perfecta (bet); exacta; straight forecast
flail (for threshing grain)
sandhi; liaison; trill
labour union; labor union
one's followers or hangers-on
continued fraction
pre-noun adjectival; adnominal adjective
commissura; commissurae; commissure; commissural
compound word; phrase; collocation; copula
conjunction
binary system
bracket win; bracket quinella
performance by two or more musicians playing similar instruments
clutch (mechanism)
the literary set
group paragraph conversion
articulated bus; bendy bus
common soldier; rank and file (of a political party)
continuous; unbroken; uninterrupted
copula
weight of 1000 sheets of paper; ream weight
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)
se-tenant
grid connection
tuplet (e.g. triplet)
genitive case; adnominal case
logotype; kanji compound
communication; connection; joining together