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
- —絶縁抵抗insulation resistance
- —他生の縁karma from a previous existence
- —養子縁組adoption (of a person)
- —合縁奇縁a couple strangely but happily united; uncanny relationship formed by a quirk of fate
- —縁切り寺(historic) a temple in which women seeking release from marriage could take refuge
- —縁日商人festival vendor
- —縁付けるto marry off; to give in marriage
- —縁起直しchange of fortune; trying to change one's luck
- —縁が遠いdistantly related
- —縁がないhave no relation to; have no luck with; not be fated to
- —縁を切るto sever relations (with someone; esp. a relative or spouse); to break off (with)
- —内縁の妻de facto wife; common-law wife
- —親類縁者one's relatives by blood and marriage (in blood and law); one's kith and kin
- —無縁墓地cemetery for those who left no relatives behind; potter's field
- —縁故採用employment of workers through personal connections; hiring through personal connections; nepotism
- —縁故政治crony politics; nepotistic government
- —縁故疎開evacuating to the homes of one's relatives in the countryside in wartime
- —縁故募集recruiting (inviting application for) through personal connections; private (stock) offering (subscription)
- —血縁関係blood relationship; blood relations; being genetically related
- —内縁関係de facto marriage; common-law marriage; living together as husband and wife without formal marriage