聯動

Chinese

		to ally; to unite; to join	to move; to change; to use to move; to change; to use; to act
trad. (聯動)		聯	動
simp. (联动)		联	动

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): liándòng

(Zhuyin): ㄌㄧㄢˊ ㄉㄨㄥˋ
Cantonese (Jyutping): lyun⁴ dung⁶
Southern Min (Teochew, Peng'im): liang⁵ dong⁶

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: liándòng
  - Zhuyin: ㄌㄧㄢˊ ㄉㄨㄥˋ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: liándòng
  - Wade–Giles: lien²-tung⁴
  - Yale: lyán-dùng
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: liandonq
  - Palladius: ляньдун (ljanʹdun)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /li̯ɛn³⁵ tʊŋ⁵¹/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
  - Jyutping: lyun⁴ dung⁶
  - Yale: lyùhn duhng
  - Cantonese Pinyin: lyn⁴ dung⁶
  - Guangdong Romanization: lün⁴ dung⁶
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /lyːn²¹ tʊŋ²²/
Southern Min
- (Teochew)
  - Peng'im: liang⁵ dong⁶
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: liâng tŏng
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /liaŋ⁵⁵⁻¹¹ toŋ³⁵/

Verb

聯動

to move in association with something; to move or change in a chain reaction
to cobrand

Proper noun

聯動

Wikipedia has an article on:

首都中学红卫兵联合行动委员会

(historical) Short for 首都紅衛兵聯合行動委員會／首都红卫兵联合行动委员会 (shǒudū hóngwèibīng liánhé xíngdòng wěiyuánhuì, “the Capital Red Guards United Action Committee”).
- 2008, Ye Weili with Ma Xiaodong (oral account), chapter 3, in 动荡的青春：红色大院的女儿们, pages 143–144:
  
  其实“联动”是个笼统的说法，与其说它是个具体的组织，不如说它是指那个时候失了势的老红卫兵、干部子弟。他们终于发现，革命不仅不再是他们的特权，而且他们的家庭纷纷成了革命的对象，他们积极参与、冲锋陷阵的“文化大革命”现在反到了自己老子身上。 [MSC, simp.]
  其實“聯動”是個籠統的說法，與其說它是個具體的組織，不如說它是指那個時候失了勢的老紅衛兵、幹部子弟。他們終於發現，革命不僅不再是他們的特權，而且他們的家庭紛紛成了革命的對象，他們積極參與、衝鋒陷陣的“文化大革命”現在反到了自己老子身上。 [MSC, trad.]
  Qíshí “liándòng” shì ge lóngtǒng de shuōfǎ, yǔqí shuō tā shì ge jùtǐde zǔzhī, bùrú shuō tā shì zhǐ nèige shíhòu shī le shì de lǎo hóngwèibīng, gànbù zǐdì. Tāmen zhōngyú fāxiàn, gémìng bùjǐn bùzài shì tāmen de tèquán, érqiě tāmen de jiātíng fēnfēn chéngle gémìng de duìxiàng, tāmen jījí cānyù, chōngfēngxiànzhèn de “Wénhuàdàgémìng” xiànzài fǎn dàole zìjǐ lǎozi shēnshàng. [Pinyin]
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