缘 Stroke Order

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

a fate match across a thousand miles is drawn by a thread

a marriage predestined by fate

climb / clamber / climb the social ladder through pull

reason / cause

reason / cause

edge / fringe / verge / brink / periphery / marginal / borderline

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

chance / opportunity / destiny

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

lip / snoot / leading edge

South Rim

related / brought together by fate

relations with other people

no cause, no reason (idiom); completely uncalled for

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

geographic situation / geo-(politics etc)

blood relationship / genetic relationship / consanguinity

trailing edge (of airplane wing)

North Rim

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

why? / for what reason?