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edge; fringe; verge; brink; periphery / marginal; borderline
HSK 6
(idiom) to get happily married; to form an auspicious union
fate or chance that brings people together / predestined affinity or relationship / (Budd.) destiny
HSK 7-9
reason / cause
HSK 6
to have no contact with / to be cut off from / (electricity) to insulate
HSK 7-9
flange
bloodline
HSK 7-9
related / brought together by fate
geopolitics / geopolitical
relations with other people
geographic situation / geo-(politics etc)
predestined love / love affinity
to originate from / to come from the fact that / owing to / because of
a marriage predestined by fate
geostrategic
destined to meet but not fated to be together (idiom)
good karma / opportune connection with marriage partner
geopolitics
reason / cause
curb
lit. climb a tree to catch a fish (idiom); fig. to attempt the impossible
trailing edge (of airplane wing)
to have no opportunity / no way (of doing sth) / no chance / no connection / not placed (in a competition) / (in pop lyrics) no chance of love, no place to be together etc
HSK 7-9
ill-fated relationship
phylogenetic relationship
fringe
to marginalize / marginalization
rim / edge of wheel
to curry favor / to advance one's career by toadying
one's predestined fate is yet to be fulfilled (idiom)
to originate / origin; genesis / account of the origins of an endeavor
to earn people's praise through one's good deeds (idiom)
distantly related / remote affinity
to cling to the rich and powerful (idiom); to advance one's career by currying favor / social climbing
to be kindred spirits / to hit it off
to climb up (a rope etc); climbing (plant)
to form ties / to become attached (to sb, sth)
to go with the flow; to accept things as they come
(of a monk) to beg
electrical insulation / heat insulation
border area
chance / opportunity / predestined relationship / (Buddhist) principal and secondary causes / chain of cause and effect
blood relationship; genetic relationship; consanguinity
casual romance / short-lived relationship
marginalized people (not part of mainstream society) / marginal man (term coined by social psychologist Kurt Lewin, referring to a person in transition between two cultures or social groups, not fully belonging to either)
(literary) why?; for what reason?
to guard a tree-stump, waiting for rabbits, and climb a tree to catch fish (idiom); without any practical course of action
chance / opportunity / destiny
blood relationship; consanguinity
(Buddhism) predestined relationship
(of a monk) to beg for food
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  *緣* | 緣* | *緣
cause / reason / karma / fate / predestined affinity / margin / hem / edge / along
a marriage predestined in a former life (idiom)
good karma
(idiom) no cause or reason; completely uncalled for
Jinghua Yuan or Flowers in the Mirror, Qing novel of fantasy and erudition (early 19th century) by Li Ruzhen 李汝珍
borderline personality disorder (BPD)
limbic system
erhua variant of 人緣|人缘
HSK 7-9


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