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縁

縁 — yeon

Meaning and reading as used in Korean (hanja).

This is the Japanese glyph form. The Korean form is 緣.

Korean reading
인연 연
Romanization
yeon
English
hem
Mandarin
yuán
Japanese on'yomi
エン, タン
Japanese kun'yomi
ふち ふち.どる ゆかり よすが へり えにし
Japanese usage
Jōyō kanji
School grade
Secondary (Jōyō)
Newspaper frequency
#1,291 of 2,500
Strokes
15
Variant forms
緣
Radical
糸 (120, 9 residual)
Unicode
U+7E01

Parts that make up 縁

  • 糸 실 사, 가는실 멱 꼬아 놓은 실타래실·천·끈, 그리고 잇고 매는 일
  • 彖 판단할 단 주둥이가 긴 짐승‘단·연’ 계열의 소리

Japanese words with 縁

  • 縁ふち rim; brim; edge
  • 無縁むえん unrelated; unconnected; irrelevant
  • 血縁けつえん blood relationship; consanguinity; blood relative
  • 因縁いんねん fate; destiny; connection
  • 縁起えんぎ omen; sign of luck; origin
  • 絶縁ぜつえん breaking off relations (with); severing one's connections (with); breaking with (e.g. one's past)
  • 地縁ちえん territorial relationship; regional bond
  • 縁故えんこ relation; connection; affinity
  • 養子縁組ようしえんぐみ adoption (of a person)
  • 縁談えんだん marriage proposal; marriage talks
  • 額縁がくぶち (picture) frame; architrave (of a door, window, etc.)
  • 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)

Other hanja read “연”

Other hanja with radical 糸

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