源 - Dong Chinese dictionary

yuán

spring

Phonosemantic compound. 氵 represents the meaning and 原 represents the sound.

Components

氵 Meaning component

shui, shuǐ

water

氵 is a component form of 水.

yuán

source

Evolution

Clerical script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Regular script

Modern

Definitions

yuán

spring; source, head; surname; root; source; origin

Most common words with 源

Freq.	Word	Meaning
	资源	resource (such as manpower or tourism)
	来源	origin
	能源	energy
	源	root
	电源	electric power source

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese	Middle Chinese	Pinyin	Gloss
*N-ɢʷar	ngjwon	yuán	spring, source

Statistics

HSK level 4

Appears in 31.5714% of movies

1166th most common character in movies

670th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes	13
Unicode	U+6E90

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