縁
エン • -ネン
ふち • ふち.どる • ゆかり • よすが • へり • えにし
affinity; relation; connection; edge; border; verge; brink
Words
一河の流れを汲むも他生の縁
いちがのながれをくむもたしょうのえん
- the events of today are destined by the past; even drawing water from the same river reveals a bond from a former life; even chance relationships can be attributed to the working of fate exp proverb
縁海
えんかい
- inland sea; epicontinental sea; epeiric sea; marginal sea n
特別養子縁組
とくべつようしえんぐみ
- special adoption; plenary adoption; adoption in which the relationship with the biological parents is dissolved n law
縁の下の舞
えんのしたのまい
- hard work gone unnoticed; thankless task; a dance under a veranda exp n id
- off-stage dance that used to be performed on the 22th of the 2nd month in the lunar calendar in Osaka's Tennōji temple exp n
縁故資本主義
えんこしほんしゅぎ
- crony capitalism n