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
- —濡れ縁open veranda; open verandah
- —離縁状letter of divorce
- —逆縁婚levirate marriage; sororate marriage; marriage to deceased sibling's spouse
- —基準縁reference edge; guide edge
- —攀縁茎climbing stem
- —近縁種related species; allied species
- —類縁体analog; analogue
- —辺縁系limbic system
- —無縁塚tomb of someone with no relatives to mourn their death
- —無縁墓tomb of someone with no relatives to mourn their death
- —周縁部periphery; margin; rim; penumbra
- —縁付きmarriage
- —縁合いrelative; person to whom one is close
- —周縁化marginalization
- —絶縁状letter breaking off with someone; Dear John letter
- —順縁婚sororate marriage
- —絶縁油insulating oil; transformer oil
- —血縁者blood relative
- —くれ縁open-air veranda with thin boards running the length of it
- —縁故者related person; relative