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
- —縁由connection; relationship; origin; reason; cause; motive (e.g. for an act)
- —縁海inland sea; epicontinental sea; epeiric sea; marginal sea
- —前縁leading edge (wing, propeller, etc.)
- —後縁trailing edge
- —林縁forest edge; forest border
- —葉縁leaf margin
- —全縁entire margin (of a leaf); leaf edge without serrations or bumps
- —縁の下out of sight; in the background; unnoticed; under the veranda
- —縁遠いunconnected; weakly related; alien; far beyond (one's means, ability); having little prospect of marriage
- —縁結びmarriage; marriage tie; love knot; spiritual connection (to a person, object); spiritual tie; fated connection
- —縁切りseparation; divorce; severing of connections
- —縁定めmarriage contract
- —近縁属related genera; associated species
- —腐れ縁(undesirable but) inseparable relationship
- —無縁仏person (or their spirit) who died with no one to tend their grave
- —縁付くto marry
- —縁起物talisman; lucky charm
- —縁続きrelative
- —絶縁体insulator
- —絶縁線insulated wire