Kanji1 / 15
縁 kanji
affinity, relation, connection, edge, border, verge, brink
- JLPT level
- N1 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N3 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 15
- School grade
- Secondary school
On readings
エン-ネン
Kun readings
ふちふちどるゆかりよすがへりえにし
Variant forms
緣Words with 縁
LevelWord & meaningActions
- N1縁側Popularengawa; external corridor on the outer side of traditional Japanese houses; bone at the base of a fin (esp. of a flatfish); meat at the base of a fin
- N1縁談Popularmarriage proposal; marriage talks
- N1縁fate; destiny (esp. as a mysterious force that binds two people together); relationship (e.g. between two people); bond; link; connection; family ties; affinity; opportunity; chance (to meet someone and start a relationship); pratyaya (indirect conditions, as opposed to direct causes); narrow open-air veranda
- —縁起Popularomen; sign of luck; origin; history; causation; dependent arising; doctrine that everything has a cause and there is nothing that arises out of nothing
- —血縁Popularblood relationship; consanguinity; blood relative
- —絶縁Popularbreaking off relations (with); severing one's connections (with); breaking with (e.g. one's past); insulation (electrical or thermal); isolation
- —無縁Popularunrelated; unconnected; irrelevant; indifferent; divorced from; having nothing to do with one; being foreign to one; without relations (esp. of a deceased person); having no surviving relatives; unrelated to the teachings of Buddha; unable to be saved by Buddha
- —悪縁evil destiny or connection; unfortunate love
- —右縁right margin
- —縁家related family
- —縁故relation; connection; affinity
- —縁語use of related words to enhance expression (in classical Japanese poetry or prose); semantically related words
- —縁者relative; relation
- —縁籍relatives
- —縁先veranda edge
- —縁台bench
- —縁日temple festival; fair; fete day; day related to a particular deity and thought to bring divine blessing to those who celebrate it
- —遠縁distant relative
- —求縁courtship
- —旧縁old relationship; old acquaintance