Meaning
affinity · border · brink · connection · edge · relation · verge
On'yomi
-ネン · エン
Kun'yomi
えにし · ふち · ふち.どる · へり · ゆかり · よすが
Common compounds (25)
- 因 よしpiece of information that one has heard; I hear that ...; it is said that ...
- 無縁 むえんunrelated to the teachings of Buddha; unable to be saved by Buddha
- 椽側 えんがわbone at the base of a fin (esp. of a flatfish); meat at the base of a fin
- 額ぶち がくぶち(picture) frame
- 養子縁組 ようしえんぐみadoption (of a person)
- 血縁 けちえんblood relative
- 縁起 いんえんdependent arising; doctrine that everything has a cause and there is nothing that arises out of nothing
- 因縁 いんえんhetu and prataya (direct causes and indirect conditions, which underlie the actions of all things)
- 絶縁 ぜつえんinsulation (electrical or thermal); isolation
- 縁組 えんぐみadoption
- 縁談 えんだんmarriage proposal; marriage talks
- 地縁 ちえんterritorial relationship; regional bond