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
- —養子縁組みadoption (of a person)
- —縁に繋がるto be related to someone by blood
- —縁者びいきnepotism
- —縁は異な物inscrutable are the ways people are brought together; there is no telling how people are brought together; marriages are made in heaven
- —縁起が良いof good omen; auspicious; lucky; auguring well (for); boding well (for)
- —縁起がよいof good omen; auspicious; lucky; auguring well (for); boding well (for)
- —縁起のいいof good omen; auspicious; lucky; auguring well (for); boding well (for)
- —縁起のよいof good omen; auspicious; lucky; auguring well (for); boding well (for)
- —縁起かつぎbeing superstitious; superstitious person
- —縁起でも無いill-omened; unlucky
- —縁起をかつぐto be superstitious; to believe in omens
- —縁はいなものinscrutable are the ways people are brought together; there is no telling how people are brought together; marriages are made in heaven
- —縁も所縁もないhaving no relation with whatsoever; having nothing to do with; alien
- —縁も所縁も無いhaving no relation with whatsoever; having nothing to do with; alien
- —縁もゆかりも無いhaving no relation with whatsoever; having nothing to do with; alien
- —袖振り合うも多生の縁even a chance meeting can lead to a deep bond; even a chance meeting is due to the karma of a previous life
- —袖ふりあうも他生の縁even a chance meeting can lead to a deep bond; even a chance meeting is due to the karma of a previous life
- —袖触り合うも多生の縁even a chance meeting can lead to a deep bond; even a chance meeting is due to the karma of a previous life
- —袖擦り合うも他生の縁a meeting by chance is preordained
- —袖擦り合うも多生の縁a meeting by chance is preordained