緣 (yuán)
fate; affinity; cause; edge
How 緣 is written
- Strokes
- 15
- Radical
- 糹 — silk
- Traditional
- 緣
- Simplified
- 缘
Components
- 糹 silk
- 彑 pig snout
- 勹 wrap
Common words using 緣
- 情緣 qíngyuán
- predestined love; love affinity
- 緣分 yuánfèn
- fate or chance that brings people together; predestined affinity or relationship; (Budd.) destiny
- 人緣 rényuán
- relations with people; popularity
- 因緣 yīnyuán
- chance; opportunity; predestined relationship
- 姻緣 yīnyuán
- a marriage predestined by fate
- 孽緣 nièyuán
- ill-fated relationship
- 投緣 tóuyuán
- to be kindred spirits; to hit it off
- 有緣 yǒuyuán
- related; brought together by fate; same karma
- 機緣 jīyuán
- chance; opportunity; destiny
- 無緣 wúyuán
- to have no opportunity; no way (of doing sth); no chance
- 無緣無故 wúyuánwúgù
- no cause, no reason (idiom); completely uncalled for
- 緣份 yuánfèn
- also written 緣分|缘分; fate or chance that brings people together; predestined affinity or relationship
緣 in a sentence
我們能在這裡見面真是有緣。
Wǒmen néng zài zhèlǐ jiànmiàn zhēnshì yǒuyuán.
“It is truly fate that we are able to meet here.”
How common is 緣?
緣 is the 1,272nd most frequent character in written Chinese. Characters up to this rank account for about 92.6% of all running text.
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