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Translingual
Han character
緣 (Kangxi radical 120, 糸 +9, 15 strokes, cangjie input 女火女弓人 (VFVNO ), four-corner 27932 , composition ⿰糹 彖 )
Derived characters
References
Kangxi Dictionary: page 930 , character 19
Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 27656
Dae Jaweon: page 1368, character 18
Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3433, character 7
Unihan data for U+7DE3
Chinese
Glyph origin
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 / 形声 , OC *lon, *lons ): semantic 糹 + phonetic 彖 ( OC *l̥ʰjelʔ, *hljelʔ, *l̥ʰoːns ) .
Pronunciation 1
Note :
uang5 - Shantou;
uêng5 - Chaozhou.
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. * 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
hem ( edge of a piece of clothing )
edge ; brink ; margin
along ; down ; throughout the length of
to climb up; to climb vertically ; to ascend
以 若 所 為 ,求 若 所 欲 ,猶 緣 木 而 求 魚 也 。 以 若 所 为 ,求 若 所 欲 ,犹 缘 木 而 求 鱼 也 。 From: Mencius , c. 4th century BCE Yǐ ruò suǒ wéi, qiú ruò suǒ yù, yóu yuán mù ér qiú yú yě. But doing what you do to seek for what you desire is like climbing a tree to seek for fish.
to involve ; to implicate ; to incriminate
reason ; cause ; basis
無緣 無故 / 无缘 无故 ― wúyuán wúgù ― without reason
( literary ) because of ; due to
緣 何/ 缘 何 ― yuán hé ― why
relying on; depending on
lucky chance ; luck or lot by which people are brought together; predestined relationship ; fate ; serendipity
《鏡花緣 》 《镜花缘 》 “Jìnghuāyuán ” Flowers in the Mirror
linkage ; bondings
Compounds
Descendants
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
hem ; margin
( obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese ) to edge with lace ; to rim with lace, border , etc.
References
“緣 ”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database) , 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong ), 2014–
李如龙 , 刘福铸 , 吴华英 , 黄国城 (2019 ) “缘 ”, in 莆仙方言调查报告 (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), Xiamen University Press , →ISBN , page 227 .
Japanese
Kanji
緣
(Jinmeiyō kanji , kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form 縁 )
hem
margin
reason
cause
karma
destiny ; fate
Readings
Noun
For pronunciation and definitions of 緣 – see the following entry.
(This term, 緣 , is the kyūjitai of the above term.)
Korean
Hanja
緣 • (yeon, dan ) (hangeul 연 , 단 , revised yeon, dan, McCune–Reischauer yŏn, tan, Yale yen, tan)
fate
reason
Vietnamese
Han character
緣 : Hán Nôm readings: duyên
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