created sense approved 夤缘/夤緣 · yínyuán · to climb socially — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"
夤缘 / 夤緣
yínyuán
to climb socially
To curry favor or advance one's career by toadying to influential people; to climb socially through connections.
夤 (literal) → 夤 · yín · to fawningly seek connections 缘 (literal) → 缘/緣 · yuán · to climb
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created sense approved 夤缘/夤緣 · yínyuán · to climb upward — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"
夤缘 / 夤緣
yínyuán
to climb upward
(Literary) to climb upward; to scale heights.
夤 (literal) → 夤 · yín · deep 缘 (literal) → 缘/緣 · yuán · to climb
Changed: simplified, traditional, gloss, definition, pinyin, variant pinyin, variants, separable parts, decomposition