缘
yuányuàn HSK6

hem

缘 緣 yuán frequency
reason adverbnoun
(bound form) reason; cause; origin
edge locative
(bound form) edge; margin; brim of an object

我们租了一辆车，驱车前往大峡谷的西缘。

wǒ​men zū le yī liàng chē, qū chē qián​wǎng dà​xiá​gǔ de xī yuán.

We rented a car and drove to the west rim of the Grand Canyon.

fate noun
(bound form) fate; predestination; the karmic connection or destiny that brings people together
to climb
(literary) to climb up; to scale; to crawl along
along
(literary) to follow along; to move along a path or waterway
because of
(literary) because of; due to; for the purpose of
hem
(literary) decorative border or hem of a garment
缘 緣 yuàn
to trim
(archaic) to trim or decorate the edge of a garment
to rationalize
(archaic) to decorate or rationalize, as in using classical principles to justify administrative actions (e.g. 缘饰 yuán​shì)

Frequency
Character
Written text
1,274th most common 99.9 per million
Movie subtitles
1,641st most common 35.2 per million appears in 19% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
5.31 per million appears in 2% of films
Written text
31.4 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 6
HSK 3.0
Level 6
Traditional
緣
Strokes
12
Unicode
U+7F18

Sources
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)