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
- —良縁good match; suitable candidate (for marriage); good opportunity to be saved by Buddha
- —奇縁strange coincidence
- —機縁opportunity; chance
- —復縁reconciliation (with one's spouse, adopted child, etc.)
- —外縁brink; outer edge
- —結縁making a connection (with Buddha)
- —縁石curb (stone); kerb
- —東縁eastern edge; east margin
- —西縁western edge; west margin
- —順縁favorable condition (for entering the priesthood); dying in order (from oldest to youngest)
- —攀縁climbing
- —縁覚pratyekabuddha (one who achieves enlightenment without a teacher)
- —肉縁blood relation; blood relative
- —口縁rim of bowl or vessel; peristome
- —窩縁cavity margin (e.g. tooth, body)
- —族縁relative; relation; family tie
- —合縁good relationship
- —芳縁good fate; auspicious fate
- —有縁related to the teachings of Buddha; able to be saved by Buddha; related; relevant
- —ご縁fate; chance; relationship; tie