血縁【けつえん】
blood relationship, consanguinity, blood relative
因縁【いんねん】
fate, destiny, connection, tie, bond, origin, pretext, justification, hetu and prataya (direct causes and indirect conditions, which underlie the actions of all things)
絶縁【ぜつえん】
breaking off relations (with), severing one's connections (with), breaking with (e.g. one's past), insulation (electrical or thermal), isolation
地縁【ちえん】
territorial relationship, regional bond
縁故【えんこ】
relation, connection, affinity
養子縁組【ようしえんぐみ】
adoption (of a person)
額縁【がくぶち】
(picture) frame, architrave (of a door, window, etc.)
縁談【えんだん】
marriage proposal, marriage talks
内縁【ないえん】
de facto marriage, common-law marriage
縁側【えんがわ】
engawa, external corridor on the outer side of traditional Japanese houses, bone at the base of a fin (esp. of a flatfish), meat at the base of a fin
縁切り【えんきり】
separation, divorce, severing of connections
縁の下【えんのした】
out of sight, in the background, unnoticed, under the veranda
縁日【えんにち】
temple festival, fair, fete day, day related to a particular deity and thought to bring divine blessing to those who celebrate it
縁者【えんじゃ】
relative
縁組【えんぐみ】
forming a familial relationship (through adoption, marriage, etc.), adoption
縁結び【えんむすび】
marriage, marriage tie, love knot
遠縁【とおえん】
distant relative
縁台【えんだい】
bench
縁遠い【えんどおい】
unconnected, weakly related, alien, far beyond (one's means, ability), having little prospect of marriage
離縁【りえん】
divorce, dissolution of adoption
