縁 — affinity, relation, connection

えん縁 affinity

Grade S Japanese school grade level in which this kanji is taught. Grade 1 is first year of elementary school. 15 strokes

U+7E01 Unicode hex codepoint — a unique identifier for this character in the Unicode standard. Freq #1291 Frequency rank among the ~2,500 most common kanji in Japanese newspapers. Lower number = more common. Heisig #1472 Index in James Heisig's "Remembering the Kanji" — a popular textbook that teaches kanji through mnemonics and stories.

Meanings

affinity
relation
connection
edge
border
verge
brink

word

えん en On'yomi On'yomi (音読み) — the Sino-Japanese reading, derived from Chinese pronunciation. Most commonly used in compound words (jukugo).

縁(えん) en fate 無(む) 縁(えん) muen unrelated 縁(えん) 起(ぎ) engi omen

ねん nen On'yomi On'yomi (音読み) — the Sino-Japanese reading, derived from Chinese pronunciation. Most commonly used in compound words (jukugo).

因(いん) 縁(ねん) innen fate

Stroke order

Stroke data from KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0)

Components

Composed of

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彖 judgement

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Kangxi Radical The Kangxi radicals are a set of 214 character components standardized in the 1716 Kangxi Dictionary. Every kanji is classified under one radical, used for dictionary lookup and character organization.

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