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
- —縁起の悪いominous; ill-omened; inauspicious; unlucky; sinister
- —縁起を担ぐto be superstitious; to believe in omens
- —大脳辺縁系limbic system
- —絶縁増幅器isolated amplifier
- —縁起が悪いof bad omen; ill augur; boding evil; bad fortune
- —縁起がいいof good omen; auspicious; lucky; auguring well (for); boding well (for)
- —絶縁抵抗計insulation resistance tester
- —十二縁起説Buddhist theory of the twelve-fold chain of causation, interdependent origination and co-dependent arising (San: pratītya-samutpāda); twelve causal links
- —絶縁テープelectrical tape; insulating tape; friction tape
- —絶縁変圧器isolation transformer; isolating transformer; insulating transformer
- —縁の下の舞hard work gone unnoticed; thankless task; a dance under a veranda; off-stage dance that used to be performed on the 22th of the 2nd month in the lunar calendar in Osaka's Tennōji temple
- —特別縁故者person with a special relationship (e.g. in inheritance); special relative
- —縁起の良いof good omen; auspicious; lucky; auguring well (for); boding well (for)
- —縁談を調えるto arrange a marriage
- —縁につながるto be related to someone by blood
- —縁起でもないill-omened; unlucky
- —縁は異なものinscrutable are the ways people are brought together; there is no telling how people are brought together; marriages are made in heaven
- —グループ絶縁grouping isolation
- —非絶縁増幅器non-isolated amplifier
- —普通養子縁組regular adoption (official adoption with the consent of both parties and without dissolving the relationship with the biological parents)