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夤缘

yín yuán

2-character word Traditional 夤緣

What 夤缘 means

1. to curry favor
2. to advance one's career by toadying

The characters in 夤缘

• 夤yínlate at night
• 缘yuáncause; reason; karma

Words starting with 夤缘

• 夤缘攀附yín yuán pān fùto cling to the rich and powerful (idiom); to advance one's career by currying favor…

Sounds the same

Read yín yuán, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 银元flat silver (former coinage); also written 银圆; silver dollar
• 银圆variant of 银元

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