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縁

15 strokes
Radical:
silk 糸 (糹)
Parts:
小 幺 ヨ 糸 豕
affinity, relation, connection, edge, border, verge, brink
Kun:
ふち、 ふち.どる、 ゆかり、 よすが、 へり、 えにし
On:
エン、 -ネン
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
JLPT level N1
1291 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 縁 【エン】 fate, destiny (esp. as a mysterious force that binds two people together), relationship (e.g. between two people), bond, link, connection, family ties, affinity, opportunity, chance (to meet someone and start a relationship), pratyaya (indirect conditions, as opposed to direct causes), narrow open-air veranda
  • 縁起 【エンギ】 omen, sign of luck, origin, history, causation, dependent arising, doctrine that everything has a cause and there is nothing that arises out of nothing
  • 遠縁 【トオエン】 distant relative
  • 内縁 【ナイエン】 de facto marriage, common-law marriage

Kun reading compounds

  • 縁 【ふち】 rim, brim, edge, brink
  • 縁石 【えんせき】 curb (stone), kerb
  • 盆の縁 【ぼんのふち】 edge of a tray
  • 縁取る 【ふちどる】 to border, to fringe, to hem, to edge
  • 縁 【ゆかり】 connection (to a person, place, etc.), relation, affinity
  • 縁の色 【ゆかりのいろ】 violet
  • 縁 【よすが】 something to rely on, aid, clue, way, means, someone to rely on, relative, reminder, memento
  • 縁 【へり】 edge (of a river, woods, etc.), shoulder (of a road), rim, brim, hem, margin, fringe, selvage, fabric border (of a tatami mat, etc.), edging
  • 縁石 【えんせき】 curb (stone), kerb
  • 縁 【えん】 fate, destiny (esp. as a mysterious force that binds two people together), relationship (e.g. between two people), bond, link, connection, family ties, affinity, opportunity, chance (to meet someone and start a relationship), pratyaya (indirect conditions, as opposed to direct causes), narrow open-air veranda

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
yuan2
Korean:
yeon, dan

Spanish

  • afinidad
  • relación
  • conexión
  • borde
  • frontera
  • margen

Portuguese

  • afinidade
  • relação
  • conexão
  • margem
  • borda
  • limite
  • extremidade

French

  • affinité
  • relation
  • karma
  • rapport
  • bord
  • bordure
1030 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
1362 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
3585 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1244 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
1641 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
2660 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
1131 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1183 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
732 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1548 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
1754 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
940 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1269 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1384 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
27656P Morohashi
1386 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
4553 New Nelson (John Haig)
1372 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1472 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
1790 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
2751 2001 Kanji
6a9.10 The Kanji Dictionary
1-6-9 SKIP code
2793.2 Four corner code
1-17-79 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
7e01 Unicode hex code

辺

5 strokes (also 4)
Radical:
walk 辵 (辶, ⻌, ⻍)
Parts:
刀 込
Variants:
邊 邉
environs, boundary, border, vicinity
Kun:
あた.り、 ほと.り、 -べ
On:
ヘン
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 4
JLPT level N2
428 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 辺 【ヘン】 area, vicinity, region, side, edge, circumstances
  • 辺境 【ヘンキョウ】 remote region, outlying district, border district, frontier
  • 普遍 【フヘン】 universal, general, ubiquitous, omnipresent
  • どの辺 【ドノヘン】 whereabouts, what part, how much, what point

Kun reading compounds

  • 辺り 【あたり】 (in the) neighbourhood, neighborhood, vicinity, nearby, surroundings, around, about, or thereabouts, for instance, say, such as
  • あたり一面 【あたりいちめん】 whole area, surrounding area, all around, everywhere, all over the place
  • 御辺 【ごへん】 you
  • 辺 【ほとり】 side (esp. of a waterbody), edge, bank, shore
  • 片辺 【かたほとり】 corner, remote country place

Readings

Japanese names:
なべ
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
bian1
Korean:
byeon

Spanish

  • alrededores
  • límites
  • vecindad

Portuguese

  • arredores
  • limite
  • borda
  • vizinhança

French

  • environs
  • frontière
  • voisinage
713 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
608 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
580 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
696 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
4661 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
270 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
947 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
179 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
775 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
789 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
962 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
676 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
3761 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1916 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2607 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
290 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
38710P Morohashi
3029 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
6011 New Nelson (John Haig)
284 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
302 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
455 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
3545 2001 Kanji
2q2.1 The Kanji Dictionary
3-3-2 SKIP code
3730.2 Four corner code
1-42-53 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
8fba Unicode hex code