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
- —類縁関係close relationship
- —血縁淘汰kin selection
- —縁のないunrelated; unconnected
- —縁の遠いdistantly related
- —縁があるto be fated to; be linked by fate
- —縁を結ぶto become related (through marriage, adoption, etc.); to form a connection (with Buddha)
- —無縁社会society in which individuals are isolated and have weak personal links between each other
- —血縁集団consanguineous group; kin group
- —地縁集団social group with common ties to a region
- —法界無縁all-encompassing mercy of the Buddha
- —絶縁材料insulating material
- —絶縁塗料(electrical) insulating coating; insulating varnish
- —内縁の夫de facto husband; common-law husband
- —縁故主義nepotism
- —何かの縁chance encounter (worth treasuring); a connection made with another person by chance
- —縁と月日don't try to force good things to happen
- —縁起担ぎbeing superstitious; superstitious person
- —辺縁動脈marginal artery
- —不思議な縁quirk of fate; curious coincidence; happy chance
- —縁結びの神god of marriage; matchmaker