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
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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
- —榑縁open-air veranda with thin boards running the length of it
- —縁組みforming a familial relationship (through adoption, marriage, etc.); adoption
- —縁づくto marry
- —ぬれ縁open veranda; open verandah
- —合い縁good relationship
- —縁起担being superstitious; superstitious person
- —縁むすびmarriage; marriage tie; love knot; spiritual connection (to a person, object); spiritual tie; fated connection
- —多生の縁karma from a previous existence
- —多少の縁karma from a previous existence
- —くされ縁(undesirable but) inseparable relationship
- —愛縁奇縁a couple strangely but happily united; uncanny relationship formed by a quirk of fate
- —合縁機縁a couple strangely but happily united; uncanny relationship formed by a quirk of fate
- —相縁奇縁a couple strangely but happily united; uncanny relationship formed by a quirk of fate
- —愛縁機縁a couple strangely but happily united; uncanny relationship formed by a quirk of fate
- —相縁機縁a couple strangely but happily united; uncanny relationship formed by a quirk of fate
- —逢縁機縁a couple strangely but happily united; uncanny relationship formed by a quirk of fate
- —縁起ものtalisman; lucky charm
- —縁が無いhave no relation to; have no luck with; not be fated to
- —縁をきるto sever relations (with someone; esp. a relative or spouse); to break off (with)
- —縁の無いunrelated; unconnected