cause / reason / karma / fate / predestined affinity / margin / hem / edge / along

= + : Yu the Great (yu) is foreseeing the silkworm's (纟) future in the anthill's kitchen (an2) using the Book of Changes (彖). The book says that the silk worm has great karma (缘) and will lead a long and fulfilled life.

缘 character breakdown

to foretell the future using the trigrams of the Book of Changes 易經|易经

= 𧰨 + : Tommy Turtle (tu) is using the Book of Changes to foretell the future (彖) in the anthill's bathroom (an4). It says that he will very soon have a wet snout (彑) and indeed, just seconds later a very wet (but friendly) caterpillar (𧰨) falls on his head.
"silk" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 120), occurring in 紅|红[hong2], 綠|绿[lü4], 累[lei4] etc / also pr. [mi4]

A silk worm.

Characters with 缘 as component

Citrus medica

Words with 缘

relations with other people
chance / opportunity / predestined relationship / (Buddhist) principal and secondary causes / chain of cause and effect
geographic situation / geo-(politics etc)
a marriage predestined in a former life (idiom)
one's predestined fate is yet to be fulfilled (idiom)
(of a monk) to beg for food
(of a monk) to beg
to curry favor / to advance one's career by toadying
to cling to the rich and powerful (idiom); to advance one's career by currying favor / social climbing
ill-fated relationship
to guard a tree-stump, waiting for rabbits, and climb a tree to catch fish (idiom); without any practical course of action
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]
(Buddhism) predestined relationship
to earn people's praise through one's good deeds (idiom)
erhua variant of 人緣|人缘[ren2 yuan2]

Sentences with 缘

缘 currently does not appear in any sentence.