因縁

いんねん いんえん

connection, tie, bond, origin

悪縁

あくえん

evil destiny or connection, unfortunate love

悪因

あくいん

bad cause

因果因縁

いんがいんねん

cause and effect, karma, retribution, an evil cause producing an evil effect

悪因悪果

あくいんあっか

sowing and reaping evil

謂れ因縁

いわれいんねん

origin, history

因縁生起

いんねんせいき

dependent arising; doctrine that everything has a cause and there is nothing that arises out of nothing

十二因縁

じゅうにいんねん

the twelve nidanas (continuum of twelve phases that lead to suffering)

縁起の悪い

えんぎのわるい

ominous, ill-omened, sinister

縁起が悪い

えんぎがわるい

of bad omen, ill augur, boding evil, bad fortune

因縁をつける

いんねんをつける

to invent a pretext for a quarrel, to pick a fight

縁

ゆかり ふち よすが よすか へり えん えにし えに え

relationship (e.g. between two people), bond, link, connection

因

いん

hetu (direct cause, esp. as opposed to indirect conditions)

合縁奇縁

あいえんきえん

a couple strangely but happily united, uncanny relationship formed by a quirk of fate

悪悪戯

わるいたずら あくいたずら

mischief

悪

わる あく

evil, wickedness

悪衣悪食

あくいあくしょく

shabby clothes and plain foods

再縁

さいえん

second marriage

族縁

ぞくえん

relative, relation, family tie