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原

原

原 U+539F, 原
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-539F
← 厞
[U+539E] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 厠 →
[U+53A0]
See also: 厡

Translingual

Han character

原 (radical 27 厂+8, 10 strokes, cangjie input 一竹日火 (MHAF), four-corner 71296, composition ⿸厂⿱白小)

Synonyms

  • (origin): 元

Derived characters

References

  • KangXi: page 162, character 3
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 2973
  • Dae Jaweon: page 368, character 23
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 74, character 9
  • Unihan data for U+539F

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 原
alt. forms 厡
邍 “plain”

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 原
Bronze inscriptions Large seal script Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series (原) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
羱 *ŋʷaːn, *ŋʷan
豲 *ɦŋʷaːn
謜 *sŋ̥ʰʷan, *ŋʷan
縓 *sŋ̥ʰʷan, *sŋ̥ʰʷans
原 *ŋʷan
源 *ŋʷan
厵 *ŋʷan
嫄 *ŋʷan
騵 *ŋʷan
榞 *ŋʷan
獂 *ŋʷan
蒝 *ŋʷan
願 *ŋʷans
傆 *ŋʷans
愿 *ŋʷans

Ideogram (指事) – a spring 泉 bursting from a cliff-side 厂: origin.

Current form is graphically 厂 + 白 + 小, but this is not the etymology.

Etymology

The sense “source, origin; basic, primary” is perhaps related to 元 (OC *ŋon, “head; principal; first; great”) (Qiu, 1988).

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 原
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 疑 (31)
Final (韻) 元 (66)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division (等) III
Fanqie 愚袁切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /ŋʉɐn/
Pan
Wuyun		 /ŋʷiɐn/
Shao
Rongfen		 /ŋiuɐn/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /ŋuan/
Li
Rong		 /ŋiuɐn/
Wang
Li		 /ŋĭwɐn/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /ŋi̯wɐn/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 yuán
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 原 原
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 yuán yuán
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ ngjwon › ‹ ngjwon ›
Old
Chinese		 /*N-ɢʷar/ /*N-ɢʷar/
English spring, source; origin high plain (n.)

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 原
Reading # 1/1
No. 16186
Phonetic
component		 原
Rime
group		 元
Rime
subdivision		 1
Corresponding
MC rime		 元
Old
Chinese		 /*ŋʷan/
Notes 金文象泉源，爲源初文

Definitions

原

  1. meadow; field; plain; prairie; tundra; wilderness
  2. source; origin; beginning
  3. Original form of 源 (yuán, “fountainhead; source”).
  4. basic; fundamental
  5. original; primary
  6. originally; at the beginning
  7. to originate; to arise
  8. to trace the source; to probe into
  9. to forgive; to pardon
  10. A surname​.

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

原

(grade 2 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings

Compounds

Noun

原 ‎(hiragana はら, romaji hara)

  1. meadow, plain, field

Proper noun

原 ‎(hiragana はら, romaji Hara)

  1. A surname​.

Korean

Hanja

原 • ‎(won) (hangeul 원, revised won, McCune-Reischauer wŏn)

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Vietnamese

Han character

原 (nguyên, nguyễn)

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