漢字Kanji · in Nature & Elements
原: meadow, original
Also: primitive, field, plain, prairie, tundra, wilderness
JLPT N310 strokesGrade 2Your ink: 白 Not met
- 厂cliff(meaning)
- CDP-8BC4(form)
厂 carries the meaning · CDP-8BC4 is drawn in
10 strokes
Two readings, and the words that use each
ゲンgen · on'yomi · in compounds
- 原稿げんこうmanuscript
- 原因げんいんcause, origin
- 原則げんそくprinciple
- 原点げんてんstarting point
- 原爆げんばくatomic bomb
- 原告げんこくplaintiff
- 高原こうげんplateau
- 原始的なげんしてきなprimitive
はらhara · kun'yomi · on its own
- 野原のはらfield
Words: Kanji alive, CC BY 4.0.
成り立ち
Where it comes from
Origin · sourced
Ideogrammic compound (會意)泉 spring + 厂 cliff
A spring bursting from a cliff-side – origin. A conservative variant is 厡, in which water is well visible at the bottom.
Source: Wiktionary, 原 (rev. 93430454), CC BY-SA 4.0
Memory story · made up to help you remember
“Cliff (厂) + spring (泉). A place where water springs forth directly from a "cliff" side—the "original" and pure source of a great river.”
繋がり
Connections
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
In ChineseSame character in simplified and traditional · yuán
Same form: 原 is written the same way in mainland China (simplified) and in Taiwan and Hong Kong (traditional).
- Simplified
- 原 mainland China, Singapore
- Traditional
- 原 Taiwan, Hong Kong
Pinyin yuán most common reading
Forms and pinyin: Unicode Unihan database (Unicode License v3). Pinyin lists the most common reading, not every reading.
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