源

See also: 厵

Translingual

Han character

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

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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Chinese

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simp. and trad.		源

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): yuán (yuan²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄩㄢˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): jyun⁴
• Hakka (Pha̍k-fa-sṳ): ngièn
• Min Dong (BUC): nguòng
• Min Nan (POJ): gôan
• Wu (WT Romanisation): nyoe (T3)

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: yuán
    • Zhuyin: ㄩㄢˊ
    • Wade-Giles: yüan²
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: yuan
    • IPA ^(key): /y̯ɛn³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: jyun⁴
    • Yale: yùhn
    • Cantonese Pinyin: jyn⁴
    • IPA ^(key): /jyːn²¹/
• Hakka
  • Romanisations:
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: ngièn
    • IPA (Siyen, including Miaoli): /ɲi̯en¹¹/
• Min Dong
  • (Fuzhou)
    • Bàng-uâ-cê: nguòng
    • IPA ^(key): /ŋuoŋ⁵³/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: gôan
    • Tâi-lô: guân
    • IPA (Taipei): /guan²³/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /guan¹³/
• Wu
  • (Shanghainese)
    • WT Romanisation: nyoe (T3)
    • IPA ^(key): /ȵø²³/

Middle Chinese pronunciation (源, reconstructed)
Character (源), Pronunciation 1/1
Initial: 疑 (31) Final: 元 Division: III			Openness: Closed Tone: Level (Ø)			Fanqie: 愚袁切
Zhengzhang Shangfang	Bernard Karlgren	Li Rong	Pan Wuyun	Edwin Pulleyblank	Wang Li	Shao Rongfen
/ŋʉɐn/	/ŋi̯wɐn/	/ŋiuɐn/	/ŋʷiɐn/	/ŋuan/	/ŋĭwɐn/	/ŋiuɐn/

Old Chinese pronunciation (源, reconstructed)
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character								Modern Beijing (Pinyin)								Middle Chinese								Old Chinese								English
源								yuán								‹ ngjwon ›								/*N-ɢʷar/								spring, source
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system: Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p; Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character					No.					Phonetic component					Rime group					Rime subdivision					Corresponding MC rime					Old Chinese					Notes
源					16187					原					元					1					元					/*ŋʷan/					原之轉註字

Noun

源

1. source, origin, root
2. spring
3. used as a surname

Compounds

Derived terms

• 能源

• 源頭／源头

• 源源不斷／源源不断

• 水源

• 上源

• 財源／财源

• 資源／资源

• 字源

• 詞源／词源

• 語源／语源

• 源泉

• 源於／源于

• 源自

• 源出

• 起源

• 根源

• 來源／来源

• 本源

• 世外桃源

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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)

Noun

源 (hiragana みなもと, romaji minamoto)

1. source, origin

Suffix

源 (hiragana げん, romaji -gen)

1. source

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Korean

Hanja

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

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Vietnamese

Han character

源 (nguyên, nguyễn)

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