Chinese Character Wiki

緣

yuán

hem

Components
糹 meaning component

糹  Meaning component

sī, mì

  

silk

thread

彖 sound component

彖  Sound component

tuàn

  

a hog

Evolution

緣 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
緣 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
緣 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

缘 (緣) 

yuán

hem, margin; reason, cause; karma, fate; cause; reason; karma; fate; predestined affinity; margin; hem; edge; along

Most common words with 緣
Freq.
Word
Meaning

边缘

edge

缘

cause

缘故

reason

缘分

(Budd.) destiny

无缘无故

no cause, no reason (idiom); completely uncalled for

Component uses

Sound component in 1 character (0 verified)

櫞

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*lon

ywen

yuán

go along, follow


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 19.0293% of movies

1640th most common character in movies

1274th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

15

Simplified

缘

Unicode

U+7DE3

Shuowen

“緣，衣純也。从糸，彖聲。”


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