縁
affinity, border, brink, connection, edge, relation, verge
Readings
On'yomi (音読み)
Kun'yomi (訓読み)
Stroke Order
15 / 15
Information
Grade:8
Strokes:15
JLPT:1
Frequency:1291
Vocabulary
エン
| Word | Reading | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 因縁 | インエン | fate; destiny; connection; tie; bond; origin; pretext; justification; hetu and prataya (direct causes and indirect conditions, which underlie the actions of all things) |
| 縁談 | エンダン | marriage proposal; marriage talks |
| 血縁 | ケツエン | blood relationship; consanguinity; blood relative |
| 絶縁 | ゼツエン | breaking off relations (with); severing one's connections (with); breaking with (e.g. one's past); insulation (electrical or thermal); isolation |
| 無縁 | ムエン | unrelated; unconnected; irrelevant; indifferent; divorced from; having nothing to do with one; being foreign to one; without relations (esp. of a deceased person); having no surviving relatives; unrelated to the teachings of Buddha; unable to be saved by Buddha |
Other
| Word | Reading | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 因縁 | いんねん | fate; destiny; connection; tie; bond; origin; pretext; justification; hetu and prataya (direct causes and indirect conditions, which underlie the actions of all things) |
| 縁 | ふち | rim; brim; edge; brink |
| 縁起 | えんぎ | omen; sign of luck; origin; history; causation; dependent arising; doctrine that everything has a cause and there is nothing that arises out of nothing |
| 縁起 | いんえん | omen; sign of luck; origin; history; causation; dependent arising; doctrine that everything has a cause and there is nothing that arises out of nothing |
| 縁側 | えんがわ | engawa; external corridor on the outer side of traditional Japanese houses; bone at the base of a fin (esp. of a flatfish); meat at the base of a fin |
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