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HSK
edge; fringe; verge; brink; periphery / marginal; borderline
HSK 6
reason / cause
HSK 6
fate or chance that brings people together / predestined affinity or relationship / (Budd.) destiny
HSK 7-9
to have no contact with / to be cut off from / (electricity) to insulate
HSK 7-9
bloodline
HSK 7-9
erhua variant of 人緣|人缘
HSK 7-9
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
a marriage predestined by fate
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  *缘* | 缘* | *缘
cause / reason / karma / fate / predestined affinity / margin / hem / edge / along
to originate / origin; genesis / account of the origins of an endeavor
predestined love / love affinity
relations with other people
to form ties / to become attached (to sb, sth)
blood relationship; genetic relationship; consanguinity
borderline personality disorder (BPD)
ill-fated relationship
reason / cause
chance / opportunity / predestined relationship / (Buddhist) principal and secondary causes / chain of cause and effect
why? / for what reason?
to originate from / to come from the fact that / owing to / because of
good karma / opportune connection with marriage partner
flange
to be kindred spirits / to hit it off
(of a monk) to beg
lit. climb a tree to catch a fish (idiom); fig. to attempt the impossible
geographic situation / geo-(politics etc)
to climb up (a rope etc); climbing (plant)
distantly related / remote affinity
to go with the flow; to accept things as they come
good karma
to curry favor / to advance one's career by toadying
to guard a tree-stump, waiting for rabbits, and climb a tree to catch fish (idiom); without any practical course of action
(of a monk) to beg for food
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  *縁* | 縁* | *縁
Japanese variant of 緣|缘
geopolitics / geopolitical
fringe
electrical insulation / heat insulation
variant of 緣由|缘由
(idiom) to get happily married; to form an auspicious union
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)
(idiom) no cause or reason; completely uncalled for
blood relationship; consanguinity
trailing edge (of airplane wing)
Li Ruzhen (c. 1763-c. 1830), Qing novelist and phonologist, author of fantasy novel Jinghua Yuan 鏡花緣|镜花缘 or Flowers in the Mirror
curb
to marginalize / marginalization
related / brought together by fate
phylogenetic relationship
to earn people's praise through one's good deeds (idiom)
destined to meet but not fated to be together (idiom)
casual romance / short-lived relationship
a marriage predestined in a former life (idiom)
variant of 緣故|缘故
geopolitics
(Buddhism) predestined relationship
border area
one's predestined fate is yet to be fulfilled (idiom)
geostrategic
to cling to the rich and powerful (idiom); to advance one's career by currying favor / social climbing
chance / opportunity / destiny
rim / edge of wheel
limbic system
Jinghua Yuan or Flowers in the Mirror, Qing novel of fantasy and erudition (early 19th century) by Li Ruzhen 李汝珍


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