じえん【地縁】
regional [community] ties;ties to one’s local community
ぜつえん【絶縁】
1〔縁を切ること〕絶縁する break ((with));break off relations ((with))彼とは絶縁したI have broken (off relations) wit...
そでふりあうもたしょうのえん【袖振り合うも他生の縁】
Even chance meetings are the result of karma.
たしょうのえん【他生の縁】
close relationships in a previous life; karma relations ⇒そで(袖)
ちえん【地縁】
人々は血縁ではなく地縁によって固く結ばれていたThe people were bound together not by blood but by a shared territorial bond.
とおえん【遠縁】
a distant relationship;〔人〕a distant relative, a remote kinsmanあの人とは遠縁に当たりますI am distantly related...
ないえん【内縁】
内縁の妻[夫]a common-law wife [husband]内縁関係a common-law marriage彼らは内縁関係にあるThey live together as husban...
ぬれえん【×濡れ縁】
an open veranda(h)
ひとのえん【人の縁】
human ties
ふえん【不縁】
1〔縁遠いこと〕娘が不縁で心配しているHe is worried because his daughter isn't married yet.2〔縁組が成立しないこと〕その話は不縁になったTh...