yuán

former

surname Yuan; (Japanese surname) Hara; original; primary; raw; level; cause; source

cliff (厂) + spring (泉) = the original source

厂 depicts a cliff face or rocky overhang — the kind of terrain where a spring (泉) emerges from the earth. 泉 mainly gives the sound yuán; the cliff radical anchors the sense of a raw, originating source in nature.

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CliffSemantic
Spring of waterPhonetic

来住在这里,后来搬走了。

tā yuán lái zhù zài zhè lǐ, hòu lái bān zǒu le。

He originally lived here, but later moved away.

我们要找出问题的因,才能解决它。

wǒ men yào zhǎo chū wèn tí de yuán yīn, cái néng jiě jué tā。

We need to find the cause of the problem before we can solve it.

Words with 原

云贵高原

yún guì gāo yuán

Yunnan and Guizhou plateau in southwest China, covering east Yunnan, whole of Guizhou, west of Guangxi and southern margins of Sichuan, Hubei and Hunan

逐鹿中原

zhú lù zhōng yuán

lit. hunting deer in the Central Plain (idiom)

过敏原

guò mǐn yuán

allergen; anaphylactogen

还原

huán yuán

to restore to the original state

还原乳

huán yuán rǔ

reconstituted milk (Tw)

还原剂

huán yuán jì

reducing agent

还原真相

huán yuán zhēn xiàng

to set the record straight

还原号

huán yuán hào

(music notation) natural sign, ♮

那拉提草原

nà lā dī cǎo yuán

Nalat grasslands

鄂尔多斯高原

è ěr duō sī gāo yuán

Ordos Plateau, Inner Mongolia

酶原

méi yuán

zymogen

镇原

zhèn yuán

see 鎮原縣|镇原县[Zhen4 yuan2 Xian4]

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