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源

源

See also: 厵

Translingual

Han character

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

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

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 源

Glyph origin

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

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 源
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 源
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 yuán
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ ngjwon ›
Old
Chinese		 /*N-ɢʷar/
English 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 源
Reading # 1/1
No. 16187
Phonetic
component		 原
Rime
group		 元
Rime
subdivision		 1
Corresponding
MC rime		 元
Old
Chinese		 /*ŋʷan/
Notes 原之轉註字

Definitions

源

  1. source, origin, root
  2. spring
  3. A surname​.

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

源

(grade 6 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings

Compounds

Noun

源 ‎(hiragana みなもと, romaji minamoto)

  1. source, origin

Suffix

源 ‎(hiragana げん, romaji -gen)

  1. source

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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