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源
yuán
1. root
2. source
3. origin
Very Common • Top 2% ✏️ 13 strokes

Character Breakdown (Single character)

源
yuán
spring; source, root, head; surname
HSK 5 13 丶

Compound Words (20)

来源
láiyuán
source (of information etc)
HSK 6
光源
guāngyuán
light source
内源
nèiyuán
source
兵源
bīngyuán
manpower resources (for military service)
凌源
Língyuán
Lingyuan county level city in Chaoyang [[朝陽|朝阳]], Liaoning
同源
tóngyuán
homology (biology)
名源
míngyuán
origin of names
外源
wàiyuán
exogenous
婺源
Wùyuán
Wuyuan county in Shangrao [[上饒|上饶]], Jiangxi
字源
zìyuán
Chinese character etymology
安源
Ānyuán
Anyuan district of Pingxiang city [[萍鄉市|萍乡市]], Jiangxi
富源
Fùyuán
Fyuan county in Qujing [[曲靖<Qǔjìng>]], Yunnan
新源
Xīnyuán
Xinyuan county or Künes nahiyisi in Ili Kazakh autonomous prefecture [[伊犁哈薩克自治州|伊犁哈萨克自治州<YīlíHāsàkèzìzhìzhōu>]], Xinjiang
晋源
Jìnyuán
Jinyuan district of Taiyuan city [[太原市<Tàiyuánshì>]], Shanxi
本源
běnyuán
origin
东源
Dōngyuán
Dongyuan county in Heyuan [[河源<Héyuán>]], Guangdong
根源
gēnyuán
origin
HSK 6
桃源
Táoyuán
Taoyuan county in Changde [[常德<Chángdé>]], Hunan
桃源
táoyuán
same as [[世外桃源]]
水源
shuǐyuán
water source

Metadata

Category
Chinese
HSK Character Level
5
Character Frequency Rank
669
Word Frequency Rank
1,847 of 84,292

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