缘 — Chinese character
缘
yuán
reason, cause; fate; margin, hem
- Pinyin
- yuán
- Radical
- 120 ⽷ (Silk)
- Strokes
- 12
- Components
- 纟 彖
- Formation
- pictophonetic — thread; meaning component 纟; sound component 彖
- Traditional
- 緣
Common words with 缘
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 边缘 (邊緣) | biān yuán | edge; fringe; verge; brink; periphery; marginal; borderline |
| 缘故 (緣故) | yuán gù | reason; cause |
| 无缘 (無緣) | wú yuán | to have no opportunity; no way (of doing sth) |
| 血缘 (血緣) | xuè yuán | bloodline |
| 地缘 (地緣) | dì yuán | geographic situation; geo-(politics etc) |
| 绝缘 (絕緣) | jué yuán | to have no contact with; to be cut off from |
| 缘由 (緣由) | yuán yóu | reason; cause |
| 无缘无故 (無緣無故) | wú yuán wú gù | (idiom) no cause or reason; completely uncalled for |
| 缘分 (緣分) | yuán fèn | fate or chance that brings people together; predestined affinity or relationship |
| 有缘 (有緣) | yǒu yuán | related; brought together by fate |
| 边缘化 (邊緣化) | biān yuán huà | to marginalize; marginalization |
| 姻缘 (姻緣) | yīn yuán | a marriage predestined by fate |
English words written with 缘
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.