Practice JLPTMeaning
縁起 (えんぎ, engi) is a bonus vocabulary word meaning “luck; omen”.
Kanji in this word
Example sentences 12
フクロウは 縁起がいい 鳥と 言われている
It is said that an owl is a good omen.
大覚寺建立の縁起。
Origin of the Daikaku-ji construction.
７は 縁起のいい 番号だ。
Seven is a lucky number.
縁起に 塩をまいて 清める。
We sprinkle salt for purification.４
縁起でもないこと 言うなよ。
It's bad luck to say that.
縁起の 悪いことを 言いなさんな。
Don't say such ill-omened things.
は 日本語では 縁起の 悪い 数字だ。
Four is an unlucky number in Japanese.
初夢でこれらを見ることが出来れば縁起がいいとされる。
It is a good omen if your Hatsuyume (the first dream in the New Year) is a dream about those objects.
つるしの漢字表記「吊るし」は、縁起物には不適当なため推奨されない。
Tsurushi is written "
余談だがその年には熊手商の多くは縁起熊手に「火の用心」のシールを貼って売りだす。
In addition, most kumade merchants sell engi-kumade with the sticker of 'Hi no yojin' (watch out for fire) in those years.
しばしば、湯飲みなどに「春夏二升五合冬」と書いて、「商い（秋無い）益々繁盛」の縁起物とされる。
On a teacup or something, they often write 'spring, summer, 2 masu 5 go, and winter' (no autumn), and these words read as 'akinai masu masu hanjo' (means 'business prospers more and more'), and the thing with these words is regarded as a good luck charm.
初夢で見ると縁起がいいものと言われる富士山・鷹・ナスは、一説には家康の好きなものを列挙したと言われる。
It is said to be auspicious that one dreams Mt. Fuji, a hawk or an eggplant in the first night of the year, but according to a theory, it is also said that these three items were a list of what Ieyasu liked.