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緣

緣

See also: 縁 and 缘

Translingual

Traditional 緣
Shinjitai 縁
Simplified 缘

Han character

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

References

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

Chinese

trad. 緣
simp. 缘
alt. forms 縁

Glyph origin

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, OC *lon, *lons) : semantic 糹 + phonetic 彖 ‎(OC *l̥ʰjelʔ, *hljelʔ, *l̥ʰoːns).

Pronunciation 1

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
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
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

緣

  1. hem
  2. edge; brink; margin
  3. along; down
  4. to climb up
  5. to involve
  6. reason; cause
  7. because
  8. depending on
  9. lucky chance; luck or lot by which people are brought together; predestined relationship; fate
  10. linkage; bondings

Pronunciation 2

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

緣

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

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

緣

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

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

Readings

Korean

Hanja

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

  1. fate
  2. reason

Vietnamese

Han character

緣 (duyến, duyên)

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