縁（えん）
JLPT N4 · noun
Pitch accent: atamadaka (head-high) — first mora high, then falls
Meaning: bond / fate / connection
Example sentences
- 彼とは不思議な縁で結ばれている。 — He and I are bound by a strange connection.
- この出会いも何かの縁だ。 — This encounter, too, must be some kind of fate.
Idioms & proverbs containing “縁”
- 縁と月日 (えんとつきひ) — don't try to force good things to happen
- 縁は異なもの (えんはいなもの) — inscrutable are the ways people are brought together; there is no telling how people are brought together; marriages are made in heaven
- 縁は異なもの味なもの (えんはいなものあじなもの) — inscrutable and interesting are the ways people are brought together
- 袖振り合うも他生の縁 (そでふりあうもたしょうのえん) — even a chance meeting can lead to a deep bond; even a chance meeting is due to the karma of a previous life
- 袖すり合うも多生の縁 (そですりあうもたしょうのえん) — a meeting by chance is preordained
- 金の切れ目が縁の切れ目 (かねのきれめがえんのきれめ) — relationships formed by wealth will end when the money ends; the relationship ends when the money runs out; the end of money is the end of love
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