缘 yuán in a sentence
Cause (reason - fate - karma - margin - hem - edge - along)
缘 (yuán) means Cause (reason - fate - karma - margin - hem - edge - along). Below are 4 sentences on this site that use it — with pinyin, an English translation and audio. All of them were written by hand; none is machine generated.
Dictionary examples
不知什么 缘 故，他今天没来。
Bù zhī shénme yuángù, tā jīntiān méi lái.
For some reason or other he did not come today.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 缘故
他站在悬崖边 缘 ，不敢往下看。
Tā zhàn zài xuányá biānyuán, bù gǎn wǎng xià kàn.
He stood at the edge of the cliff and dared not look down.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 边缘
因为下雨的 缘 故，人来得很少。
Yīnwèi xià yǔ de yuángù, rén lái de hěn shǎo.
On account of the rain very few people came.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 缘故
这门学科处在物理和化学的边 缘 。
Zhè mén xuékē chǔ zài wùlǐ hé huàxué de biānyuán.
This discipline sits on the border between physics and chemistry.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 边缘
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Words that contain 缘
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Questions about 缘
How is 缘 used in a sentence?
This page shows 4 sentences using 缘 (yuán, "Cause (reason - fate - karma - margin - hem - edge - along)"), each with pinyin, an English translation and audio. Every one of them was written by hand for this site.
Are these sentences machine generated?
No. They come from the site's own dictionary examples, graded readers, travel phrasebook and grammar library — all written by a person. A word with no sentence gets no page here, rather than a page of invented ones.
Why do some sentences show 缘 inside a longer word?
Because that is where a single character usually lives. Seeing 缘 inside the words it builds is how the character stops being an isolated symbol and starts being something you can read.
Where can I see the full entry for 缘?
The dictionary page for 缘 has its stroke order, its traditional form, every sense the dictionary lists and a character-by-character breakdown. It is linked at the top of this page.
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