縁

Vocabulary (12)

• 縁切り寺

  えんきりでら

  (historic) a temple in which women seeking release from marriage could take refuge

• 縁座

  えんざ

  (system of) extending complicity for a crime to the criminal's family members

• くされ縁

  くされえん

  (undesirable but) inseparable relationship

• 仏縁

  ぶつえん

  Buddha's providence

• 袖すり合うも他生の縁

  そですりあうもたしょうのえん

  a meeting by chance is preordained

• 養子縁組み

  ようしえんぐみ

  adoption (of a person)

• 法界無縁

  ほうかいむえん

  all-encompassing mercy of the Buddha

• 三角縁神獣鏡

  さんかくえんしんじゅうきょう

  ancient triangular-rimmed mirror decorated with gods and animals

• 縁語

  えんご

  associated word

• 縁台

  えんだい

  bench

• 血縁者

  けつえんしゃ

  blood relative

• 縁裂れ

  ふちぎれ

  border strip