恋 — Chinese character
恋
liàn
love; to yearn for, to long for
- Pinyin
- liàn
- Radical
- 61 ⼼ (Heart)
- Strokes
- 10
- Components
- 亦 心
- Formation
- pictophonetic — heart; meaning component 心; sound component 亦
- Traditional
- 戀
- Japanese
- 恋 as a kanji
Common words with 恋
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 同性恋 (同性戀) | tóng xìng liàn | homosexuality; gay person |
| 恋爱 (戀愛) | liàn ài | (romantic) love; 个 (gè),场 (chǎng) |
| 恋人 (戀人) | liàn rén | lover; sweetheart |
| 迷恋 (迷戀) | mí liàn | to be infatuated with; to be enchanted by |
| 恋情 (戀情) | liàn qíng | romantic love |
| 初恋 (初戀) | chū liàn | first love |
| 谈恋爱 (談戀愛) | tán liàn ài | to be in a romantic relationship; to go steady; to be dating |
| 失恋 (失戀) | shī liàn | to lose one's love; to break up (in a romantic relationship) |
| 暗恋 (暗戀) | àn liàn | to be secretly in love with |
| 留恋 (留戀) | liú liàn | reluctant to leave; to hate to have to go |
| 热恋 (熱戀) | rè liàn | to fall head over heels in love; to be passionately in love |
| 爱恋 (愛戀) | ài liàn | in love with; to feel deeply attached to |
English words written with 恋
- reluctant
- homosexuality
- homosexual
- bisexual
- pedophile
- yearning
- pedophilia
- narcissism
- bisexuality
- heterosexuality
- fetishism
Data: Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.