reason; cause

(idiom) no cause or reason; completely uncalled for

fate or chance that brings people together; predestined affinity or relationship; (Budd.) destiny

related; brought together by fate

blood relationship; consanguinity

reason; cause

cause; reason; karma; fate; predestined affinity; margin; hem; edge; along

to have no opportunity; no way (of doing sth); no chance; no connection; not placed (in a competition); (in pop lyrics) no chance of love, no place to be together etc

bloodline

a marriage predestined by fate

blood relationship; genetic relationship; consanguinity

the quality of one's relationships with other people (e.g. 人緣好|人缘好[ren2 yuan2 hao3] "to be well liked")

flange

(of a monk) to beg for food

(of a monk) to beg

trailing edge (of airplane wing)

good karma

chance; opportunity; predestined relationship; (Buddhist) principal and secondary causes; chain of cause and effect

geographic situation; geo-(politics etc)

to curry favor; to advance one's career by toadying

ill-fated relationship

(Buddhism) predestined relationship

predestined love; love affinity

to be kindred spirits; to hit it off

to climb up (a rope etc); climbing (plant)

chance; opportunity; destiny

to form ties; to become attached (to sb, sth)

to have no contact with; to be cut off from; (electricity) to insulate

to originate from; to come from the fact that; owing to; because of

(literary) why?; for what reason?

to originate; origin; genesis; account of the origins of an endeavor

fringe

good karma; opportune connection with marriage partner

curb

rim; edge of wheel

distantly related; remote affinity

to go with the flow; to accept things as they come

marginalized people (not part of mainstream society); marginal man (term coined by social psychologist Kurt Lewin, referring to a person in transition between two cultures or social groups, not fully belonging to either)

erhua form of 人緣|人缘[ren2 yuan2]

electrical insulation; heat insulation

to marginalize; marginalization

Jinghua Yuan or Flowers in the Mirror, Qing novel of fantasy and erudition (early 19th century) by Li Ruzhen 李汝珍[Li3 Ru3 zhen1]

(idiom) one-time encounter (e.g. 有一面之緣|有一面之缘[you3 yi1 mian4 zhi1 yuan2] "to have met once before")

phylogenetic relationship

a marriage predestined in a former life (idiom)

one's predestined fate is yet to be fulfilled (idiom)

(idiom) to get happily married; to form an auspicious union

geostrategic

geopolitics; geopolitical