漢字Kanji · in Textiles, Plants & Food
縁: affinity, relation
Also: connection, edge, border, verge, brink
JLPT N115 strokesSecondary schoolYour ink: 白 Not met
- 糸thread(meaning)
- 彖(sound)
糸 carries the meaning · 彖 gives the sound
15 strokes
Small seal · Qin Today
Small seal: Wikimedia Commons, public domain. Today’s form: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Three readings, and the words that use each
エンen · on'yomi · in compounds
- 無縁むえんunrelated; unconnected; irrelevant
- 血縁けつえんblood relationship; consanguinity
- 縁起えんぎomen; sign of luck
- 絶縁ぜつえんbreaking off relations (with)
- 縁談えんだんmarriage proposal; marriage talks
- 縁側えんがわengawa
-ネン-nen · on'yomi
- 因縁いんねん
ふちfuchi · kun'yomi · on its own
- 縁ふちrim; brim; edge
Also read ふちどる, ゆかり, よすが, へり, えにし, with no example words in our sources. Words: JMdict, EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0.
成り立ち
Where it comes from
Memory story · made up to help you remember
“Everything is connected! This radical represents the invisible threads that tie us together—our relationships, the fine "silk" of our words, and the intricate weaving of our personal histories.”
繋がり
Connections
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
In ChineseSimplified 缘 · traditional 緣 · yuán
Three different forms: Japanese 縁, simplified 缘, traditional 緣.
- Simplified
- 缘 mainland China, Singapore
- Traditional
- 緣 Taiwan, Hong Kong
Pinyin yuán most common reading
Forms and pinyin: Unicode Unihan database (Unicode License v3). Pinyin lists the most common reading, not every reading.
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