緣

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See also: 縁 and 缘
緣 U+7DE3, 緣
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-7DE3
← 緢
[U+7DE2] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 緤 →
[U+7DE4]

Translingual[edit]

Traditional 緣
Shinjitai 縁
Simplified 缘

Han character[edit]

緣 (Kangxi radical 120, 糸+9, 15 strokes, cangjie input 女火女弓人 (VFVNO), four-corner 27932, composition ⿰糹彖)

Derived characters[edit]

References[edit]

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 930, character 19
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 27656
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1368, character 18
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3433, character 7
  • Unihan data for U+7DE3

Chinese[edit]

Glyph origin[edit]

Historical forms of the character 緣
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series (彖) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
蠡 *reːlʔ, *rel, *roːl
盠 *reːlʔ, *reːl
彖 *l̥ʰjelʔ, *hljelʔ, *l̥ʰoːns
墬 *l'els
喙 *hlods, *l̥ʰjods
餯 *hlods
剶 *ʔslon, *l̥ʰon
猭 *l̥ʰon, *l̥ʰons
鶨 *l̥ʰons, *l'uːns
椽 *l'on
篆 *l'onʔ
瑑 *l'onʔ
堟 *l'onʔ
蝝 *lon
緣 *lon, *lons
櫞 *lon
掾 *lons
褖 *l̥ʰoːns
湪 *l̥ʰoːns

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *lon, *lons) : semantic 糹／纟 + phonetic 彖 (OC *l̥ʰjelʔ, *hljelʔ, *l̥ʰoːns).

Pronunciation 1[edit]

trad. 緣
simp. 缘
2nd round simp. 𰫾
alternative forms 縁

Note:
  • uang5 - Shantou;
  • uêng5 - Chaozhou.
Rime
Character 緣
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 以 (36)
Final (韻) 仙 (78)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division (等) III
Fanqie 與專切
Baxter ywen
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/jiuᴇn/
Pan
Wuyun 		/jʷiɛn/
Shao
Rongfen 		/juæn/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/jwian/
Li
Rong 		/iuɛn/
Wang
Li 		/jĭwɛn/
Bernard
Karlgren 		/i̯wɛn/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		yuán
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		jyun4
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 緣
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		yuán
Middle
Chinese 		‹ ywen ›
Old
Chinese 		/*lon/
English go along, follow

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 緣
Reading # 1/2
No. 12527
Phonetic
component 		彖
Rime
group 		元
Rime
subdivision 		3
Corresponding
MC rime 		沿
Old
Chinese 		/*lon/

Definitions[edit]

緣

  1. hem (edge of a piece of clothing)
  2. edge; brink; margin
  3. along; down; throughout the length of
  4. to climb up; to climb vertically; to ascend
  5. to involve; to implicate; to incriminate
  6. reason; cause; basis
    無緣無故／无缘无故  ―  wúyuánwúgù  ―  without reason
  7. (literary) because of; due to
    緣何／缘何  ―  yuánhé  ―  why
  8. relying on; depending on
  9. lucky chance; luck or lot by which people are brought together; predestined relationship; fate; serendipity
    《鏡花緣》 [MSC, trad.]
    《镜花缘》 [MSC, simp.]
    “Jìnghuāyuán” [Pinyin]
    Flowers in the Mirror
  10. linkage; bondings

Compounds[edit]

Pronunciation 2[edit]

trad. 緣
simp. 缘

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 緣
Reading # 2/2
No. 12530
Phonetic
component 		彖
Rime
group 		元
Rime
subdivision 		3
Corresponding
MC rime 		掾
Old
Chinese 		/*lons/

Definitions[edit]

緣

  1. hem; margin
  2. † to edge with lace; to rim with lace, border, etc.

References[edit]

Japanese[edit]

Shinjitai

縁

Kyūjitai

緣

Kanji[edit]

緣

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form 縁)

  1. hem
  2. margin
  3. reason
  4. cause
  5. karma
  6. destiny; fate

Readings[edit]

Korean[edit]

Hanja[edit]

緣 • (yeon, dan) (hangeul 연, 단, revised yeon, dan, McCune–Reischauer yŏn, tan, Yale yen, tan)

  1. fate
  2. reason

Vietnamese[edit]

Han character[edit]

緣: Hán Nôm readings: duyên

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