Lien (連)
A Taiwanese surname.
連 Lien
- Zhuyin
- ㄌㄧㄢˊ
- Pinyin
- lián
- Wade-Giles
- Lien
- Further spellings of 連
- Lian
- Taiwanese Hokkien (Tâi-lô)
- Liân Liân is the literary (文讀) reading, while nî is the character's colloquial (白讀) reading.
- Hakka (Sixian)
- lien¹¹
- Rank in Taiwan
- 74th most common surname, roughly 0.17% of the population (2023 Ministry of the Interior figures)
What the character means
'To connect, link'; 'even' (as in 連…都); it also means a military company.
Where the surname comes from
Tradition traces it either to Lian Cheng (連稱), an official of the state of Qi, or to Jilian (季連), an ancestor of the Chu royal house. Hall name (堂號): 上黨堂.
Saying it 我姓連 — wǒ xìng lián (ㄨㄛˇ ㄒㄧㄥˋ ㄌㄧㄢˊ), "my family name is 連"
Sources: rank and share, 內政部 全國姓名統計分析 (Ministry of the Interior, National Name Statistics), data as of 2023-06-30. Taiwanese Hokkien readings, 教育部臺灣台語常用詞辭典 (MOE Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwanese Taigi), 百家姓 appendix. Hakka, 教育部臺灣客語辭典 (MOE Dictionary of Taiwan Hakka), 百家姓表, Sixian (四縣腔).