原 — Chinese character
原
yuán
source, origin, beginning
- Pinyin
- yuán
- Radical
- 27 ⼚ (Cliff)
- Strokes
- 10
- Components
- 厂 泉
- Formation
- pictophonetic — cliff; meaning component 厂; sound component 泉
- Japanese
- 原 as a kanji
Common words with 原
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 原因 | yuán yīn | cause; origin |
| 原来 (原來) | yuán lái | original; former; originally; formerly; at first |
| 原则 (原則) | yuán zé | principle; doctrine |
| 原本 | yuán běn | originally; the original; original copy; original version |
| 原始 | yuán shǐ | first; original |
| 原理 | yuán lǐ | principle; theory |
| 原料 | yuán liào | raw material |
| 原创 (原創) | yuán chuàng | to create (an original work); (of a work) original |
| 原有 | yuán yǒu | original; former |
| 原谅 (原諒) | yuán liàng | to excuse; to forgive |
| 平原 | píng yuán | field; plain |
| 原先 | yuán xiān | originally; original |
English words written with 原
原 in the Chinese classics
Occurrences: Analects 3 · Art of War 1 · I Ching 1 · Mencius 9 · Zhuangzi 16
- Analects 6.3
- Analects 14.46
- Analects 17.13
- Art of War 2.13–14
- Hexagram 8
- Mencius 4B.14
- Mencius 4B.18
- Mencius 7B.37
Data: Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.