源 (yuán)
Source; origin; resource.
How 源 is written
- Strokes
- 13
- Radical
- 氵 — water
- Traditional
- 源
- Simplified
- 源 (unchanged)
Common words using 源
- 來源 láiyuán
- source (of information etc); origin
- 源於 yuányú
- has its origins in
- 財源 cáiyuán
- financial resources; source of revenue
- 資源 zīyuán
- Ziyuan county in Guilin 桂林[Gui4 lin2], Guangxi
- 來源於 láiyuányú
- to originate in
- 光源 guāngyuán
- light source
- 婺源 wùyuán
- Wuyuan county in Shangrao 上饒|上饶, Jiangxi
- 左右逢源 zuǒyòuféngyuán
- lit. to strike water right and left (idiom); fig. to turn everything into gold; to have everything going one's way
- 根源 gēnyuán
- origin; root (cause)
- 桃源 táoyuán
- Taoyuan county in Changde 常德[Chang2 de2], Hunan; Taoyuan township in Kaohsiung county 高雄縣|高雄县[Gao1 xiong2 xian4], southwest Taiwan
- 桃花源 táohuāyuán
- same as 世外桃花源; the Garden of the Peaches of Immortality; imaginary land of joy and plenty (sim. Utopia, Cockaigne, Shangri-la)
- 水源 shuǐyuán
- water source; water supply; headwaters of a river
源 in a sentence
台灣的水資源很珍貴，大家要節約用水。
Táiwān de shuǐzīyuán hěn zhēnguì, dàjiā yào jiéyuē yòngshuǐ.
“Taiwan's water resources are precious; everyone needs to conserve water.”
How common is 源?
源 is the 669th most frequent character in written Chinese. Characters up to this rank account for about 81.9% of all running text.
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