源

See also 厵

Translingual

Han character

源 (radical 85 水+10, 13 strokes, cangjie input 水一竹火 (EMHF), four-corner 3119₆)

1. spring
2. source, head
3. used as a surname

References

• KangXi: page 639, character 16
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 17926
• Dae Jaweon: page 1046, character 9
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 1697, character 2
• Unihan data for U+6E90

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Cantonese

Hanzi

源 (Yale yun4)

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Japanese

Kanji

源 (grade 6 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings

• On: げん (gen)
• Kun: みなもと (minamoto)

Compounds

源委 (げんい, gen'i) 源泉 (げんせん, gensen)

源流 (げんりゅう, genryū) 語源 (ごげん, gogen)

根源 (こんげん, kongen) 同源 (どうげん, dōgen)

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Korean

Hanja

源 (hangeul 원, revised won, McCune-Reischauer wŏn, Yale wen)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

源 (pinyin yuán (yuan2), Wade-Giles yüan²)

Compounds

• 能源 (néngyuán)

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Vietnamese

Han character

源 (nguyên)