连
lián · HSK 3
including
🔗 连 = 辶 (walk) + 车 (car/cart) — carts linked in a row, hence 'connect, including'
Originally depicted carts moving together along a road, giving the senses of joining, linking, and 'in succession'. The 'including' meaning extends from 'linked together with' — as in 连…也 'even...too'.
连 — 辶 (walk) + 车 (cart/vehicle)
Originally a compound of the 'walk/movement' radical 辶 and 车 (cart), depicting carts moving in succession along a road. From this came the core sense of things linked or following one after another, extending to modern meanings like 'connect,' 'join,' and 'continuous.'