| 緣 | [ yuán ] cause, reason, karma, fate, predestined affinity, margin, hem, edge, along |
| 緣何 | [ yuán hé ] why?, for what reason? |
| 緣分 | [ yuán fèn ] fate or chance that brings people together, predestined affinity or relationship, (Budd.) destiny |
| 緣故 | [ yuán gù ] reason, cause |
| 緣於 | [ yuán yú ] to originate from, to come from the fact that, owing to, because of |
| 緣木求魚 | [ yuán mù qiú yú ] lit. climb a tree to catch a fish (idiom); fig. to attempt the impossible |
| 緣由 | [ yuán yoú ] reason, cause |
| 緣起 | [ yuán qǐ ] origin |
| 緣飾 | [ yuán shì ] fringe |
| ⇒ 人緣 | [ rén yuán ] relations with other people |
| ⇒ 人緣兒 | [ rén yuán ] erhua variant of 人緣|人缘[ren2 yuan2] |
| ⇒ 凸緣 | [ tū yuán ] flange |
| ⇒ 前世姻緣 | [ qián shì yīn yuán ] a marriage predestined in a former life (idiom) |
| ⇒ 前緣未了 | [ qián yuán weì ] one's predestined fate is yet to be fulfilled (idiom) |
| ⇒ 募緣 | [ mù yuán ] (of a monk) to beg for food |
| ⇒ 化緣 | [ huà yuán ] (of a monk) to beg |
| ⇒ 善緣 | [ shàn yuán ] good karma |
| ⇒ 因緣 | [ yīn yuán ] chance, opportunity, predestined relationship, (Buddhist) principal and secondary causes, chain of cause and effect |
| ⇒ 地緣 | [ dì yuán ] geographic situation, geo-(politics etc) |
| ⇒ 地緣戰略 | [ dì yuán zhàn lvè ] geostrategic |
| ⇒ 地緣政治 | [ dì yuán zhèng zhì ] geopolitics, geopolitical |
| ⇒ 地緣政治學 | [ dì yuán zhèng zhì xué ] geopolitics |
| ⇒ 夤緣 | [ yín yuán ] to curry favor, to advance one's career by toadying |
| ⇒ 夤緣攀附 | [ yín yuán pān fù ] to cling to the rich and powerful (idiom); to advance one's career by currying favor, social climbing |
| ⇒ 姻緣 | [ yīn yuán ] a marriage predestined by fate |
| ⇒ 孽緣 | [ niè yuán ] ill-fated relationship |
| ⇒ 守株待兔，緣木求魚 | [ shoǔ zhū daì tù yuán mù qiú yú ] to guard a tree-stump, waiting for rabbits, and climb a tree to catch fish (idiom); without any practical course of action |
| ⇒ 守株緣木 | [ shoǔ zhū yuán mù ] abbr. for 守株待兔，緣木求魚|守株待兔，缘木求鱼[shou3 zhu1 dai4 tu4 , yuan2 mu4 qiu2 yu2] |
| ⇒ 宿緣 | [ sù yuán ] (Buddhism) predestined relationship |
| ⇒ 廣結良緣 | [ guǎng jié liáng yuán ] to earn people's praise through one's good deeds (idiom) |
| ⇒ 後緣 | [ hoù yuán ] trailing edge (of airplane wing) |
| ⇒ 情緣 | [ qíng yuán ] predestined love, love affinity |
| ⇒ 投緣 | [ toú yuán ] to be kindred spirits, to hit it off |
| ⇒ 有緣 | [ yoǔ yuán ] related, brought together by fate |
| ⇒ 有緣無分 | [ yoǔ yuán wú fèn ] destined to meet but not fated to be together (idiom) |
| ⇒ 機緣 | [ jī yuán ] chance, opportunity, destiny |
| ⇒ 無緣 | [ wú yuán ] 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 |
| ⇒ 無緣無故 | [ wú yuán wú gù ] no cause, no reason (idiom); completely uncalled for |
| ⇒ 結緣 | [ jié yuán ] to form ties, to become attached (to sb, sth) |
| ⇒ 絕緣 | [ jué yuán ] to have no contact with, to be cut off from, (electricity) to insulate |
| ⇒ 絕緣體 | [ jué yuán tǐ ] electrical insulation, heat insulation |
| ⇒ 良緣 | [ liáng yuán ] good karma, opportune connection with marriage partner |
| ⇒ 血緣 | [ xuè yuán ] bloodline |
| ⇒ 血緣關係 | [ xuè yuán guān xì ] blood relationship, consanguinity |
| ⇒ 親緣 | [ qīn yuán ] blood relationship, genetic relationship, consanguinity |
| ⇒ 親緣關係 | [ qīn yuán guān xì ] phylogenetic relationship |
| ⇒ 路緣 | [ lù yuán ] curb |
| ⇒ 輪緣 | [ lún yuán ] rim, edge of wheel |
| ⇒ 遠緣 | [ yuǎn yuán ] distantly related, remote affinity |
| ⇒ 邊緣 | [ biān yuán ] edge, fringe, verge, brink, periphery, marginal, borderline |
| ⇒ 邊緣人 | [ biān yuán rén ] 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) |
| ⇒ 邊緣化 | [ biān yuán huà ] to marginalize, marginalization |
| ⇒ 邊緣地區 | [ biān yuán dì qū ] border area |
| ⇒ 邊緣性人格障礙 | [ biān yuán xìng rén gé zhàng aì ] borderline personality disorder (BPD) |
| ⇒ 邊緣系統 | [ biān yuán xì tǒng ] limbic system |
| ⇒ 鏡花緣 | [ jìng huā yuán ] Jinghua Yuan or Flowers in the Mirror, Qing novel of fantasy and erudition (early 19th century) by Li Ruzhen 李汝珍[Li3 Ru3 zhen1] |
| ⇒ 露水姻緣 | [ lù shuǐ yīn yuán ] casual romance, short-lived relationship |