yuán

root

source; origin

water (氵) + origin sound (原) = the source of a river

原 gives the sound yuán; the water radical grounds the meaning in flowing water traced back to its point of emergence. Together they evoke the place where a river begins.

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这条河的头在山上。

zhè tiáo hé de yuántóu zài shān shàng。

The source of this river is in the mountains.

我们要找到问题的头才能解决它。

wǒ men yào zhǎo dào wèntí de yuántóu cái néng jiějué tā。

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

Words with 源

源起

yuán qǐ

to originate

辽源

liáo yuán

see 遼源市|辽源市[Liao2 yuan2 Shi4]

辽源市

liáo yuán shì

Liaoyuan, prefecture-level city in Jilin Province 吉林省[Ji2 lin2 Sheng3]

电源线

diàn yuán xiàn

power cable (of an appliance etc)

门源

mén yuán

Menyuan Hui Autonomous County in Haibei Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture 海北藏族自治州[Hai3 bei3 Zang4 zu2 Zi4 zhi4 zhou1], Qinghai

门源回族自治县

mén yuán huí zú zì zhì xiàn

Menyuan Hui Autonomous County in Haibei Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture 海北藏族自治州[Hai3 bei3 Zang4 zu2 Zi4 zhi4 zhou1], Qinghai

门源县

mén yuán xiàn

Menyuan Hui Autonomous County in Haibei Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture 海北藏族自治州[Hai3 bei3 Zang4 zu2 Zi4 zhi4 zhou1], Qinghai

闭源

bì yuán

(computing) closed-source

开放源代码

kāi fàng yuán dài mǎ

see 開放源碼|开放源码[kai1 fang4 yuan2 ma3]

开放源码

kāi fàng yuán mǎ

(computing) open-source

开放源码软件

kāi fàng yuán mǎ ruǎn jiàn

open-source software (OSS)

开源

kāi yuán

to establish additional sources of revenue

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