緣 — Chinese character
緣
yuán
reason, cause; fate; margin, hem
- Pinyin
- yuán
- Radical
- 120 ⽷ (Silk)
- Strokes
- 15
- Components
- 糹 彖
- Formation
- pictophonetic — thread; meaning component 糹; sound component 彖
- Simplified
- 缘
- Japanese
- 緣 as a kanji
緣 in the Chinese classics
Occurrences: Mencius 2 · Zhuangzi 12
- Mencius 1A.7
- Zhuangzi The Identity of Contraries
- Zhuangzi Nourishment of the Soul
- Zhuangzi Man Among Men
- Zhuangzi Mountain Trees
- Zhuangzi Tien Tzŭ Fang
- Zhuangzi Kêng Sang Ch’u
- Zhuangzi Hsü Wu Kuei
Data: Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.