緣	1422B45   93B.02-9	部居	畫數  15	ㄩㄢˊ [yUan2]  (*ㄩㄢˋ [yUan4] ).
N	(1)  Reason: 緣故，緣由 [yUan2gu4], [yUan2you2]↓. (2)  (*[yUan4]) Hem, border (of sleeve, bed): 邊緣 ditto. (3)  Affinity, sympathy, friendship: 姻緣 marriage. (4)  Fate, predestination: 前緣 predestined in previous incarnation; 後緣 predestination in future; 夙緣，宿緣 predestination from the past; 孽緣 fate as conditioned by person's past, karma. (5)  Opportunity, luck: 良緣 good opportunity; 有緣 have the luck; 無緣 no luck or opportunity; 緣分 [yUan2fen4]↓. (6)  (Budd.) contributions to temple, like “storing up treasures in heaven”: 化緣 solicit contribution to Budd. church; 緣簿 book for recording contributions; 捐緣 make contributions to public cause.
V	To climb up: 緣木求魚 (AC) climb trees to look for fish--futile; 夤緣，攀緣 climb up socially.
Words	1.緣起 [yUan2qi3], n., (1)  (a sketch of) origin of a work or society; (2)  origin of events.  2.緣法（兒） [yUan2fa0]([er0]), n., see [yUan2fen4]↓.  3.緣分 [yUan2fen4], n., (1)  (Budd.) destiny, luck as conditioned by one's past; (2)  good luck (to meet s.o.); (3)  natural affinity among friends.  4.緣故 [yUan2gu4], n., reason,cause: 無緣無故 without any cause or reason.  5.緣何 [yUan2he2], adv., wherefore, for what reason?  6.緣桑螺 [yUan2sang1luo2], n., (zoo.) a kind of snail, Limnaea japonica.  7.緣飾 [yUan2shi4], v.t., (LL) to decorate up for show.  8.緣坐 [yUan2zuo4], v.i., to be punished for complicity.  9.緣業 [yUan2ye4], n., (Budd.) a man's fate as conditioned by his past.  10.緣因 [yUan2yin1], n., reason (for things), also wr.原因.  11.緣由 [yUan2you2], n., ditto, also wr. 原由.