affinity, relation, connection, edge, border, verge, brink

  • JLPT N1
  • 15 strokes
  • Secondary (Jōyō)
  • Radical 糸
  • #1291 most frequent

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Readings

On'yomi 音読み
エン-ネン
Kun'yomi 訓読み
ふちふちど.るゆかりよすがへりえにし

Example words & Vocabulary

ふち
a means, e.g. of living
縁談えんだん
marriage proposal, engagement
縁側えんがわ
veranda, porch, balcony, open corridor
ゆかり
related to (some place); affinity; connection
えん
(1) fate; destiny (esp. as a mysterious force that binds two people together) (2) relationship (e.g. between two people); bond; link; connection (3) family ties; affinity (4) opportunity; chance (to meet someone and start a relationship) (5) pratyaya (indirect conditions, as opposed to direct causes) (6) narrow open-air veranda
へり
edge; tip; margin
無縁むえん
unrelated
縁起えんぎ
luck; omen
血縁けつえん
blood relation

Example sentences 3

宗麟の血縁。

A blood relative of Sorin OTOMO.

えんことなもの。

Marriages are made in heaven.

大覚寺建立の縁起。

Origin of the Daikaku-ji construction.