縁

Meanings

affinity, relation, connection, edge, border, verge, brink

ES: afinidad, relación, conexión, borde, frontera, margen

Common words

• 縁側えんがわengawa, external corridor on the outer side of traditional Japanese houses
• 縁談えんだんmarriage proposal, marriage talks
• 因縁いんねんfate, destiny
• 縁起えんぎomen, sign of luck
• 額縁がくぶち(picture) frame
• 血縁けつえんblood relationship, consanguinity
• 絶縁ぜつえんbreaking off relations (with), severing one's connections (with), breaking with (e.g. one's past)
• 無縁むえんunrelated, unconnected, irrelevant, indifferent, divorced from, having nothing to do with one, being foreign to one

Example sentences

• 金かねの切きれ目めが縁えんの切きれ目め。

  The end of money is the end of love.

  La escasez de dinero es el final del amor.

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• テーブルの縁ふちにグラスを置おかないで下ください。

  Don't put the glass near the edge of the table.

  No pongas el vaso cerca del borde de la mesa.

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• やっと、姉の縁談がまとまりました。

  My older sister's marriage has finally been arranged.

  Por fin el matrimonio de mi hermana mayor se ha concertado.

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• 彼かれらは水瓶みずがめを縁ふちまで一杯いっぱいにした。

  They filled the jug to the brim.

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