夤缘 yínyuán to climb socially Origin Definitions Defs Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents yínyuán to climb socially 夤 yín to fawningly seek connections (bound form) to fawn over people in power to get ahead; to climb the social ladder缘 緣 yuán to climb (literary) to climb up; to scale; to crawl alongyínyuán to climb upward 夤 yín deep (literary) deep; profound (often used in the context of night)缘 緣 yuán to climb (literary) to climb up; to scale; to crawl along