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源 (Kangxi radical 85,水+10, 13 strokes,cangjie input水一竹火 (EMHF),four-corner3119₆,composition⿰氵原)

• 𡀶,𪒳,𢢵

• Kangxi Dictionary:page 639, character 16
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 17926
• Dae Jaweon: page 1046, character 9
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 1697, character 2
• Unihan data for U+6E90

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 /形声,OC*ŋʷan) and ideogrammic compound (會意 /会意): semantic 水(“water”) + phonetic 原(OC*ŋʷan,“origin”).

源

1. source of ariver;headwaters;headspring;fountainhead
2. source;origin;root
3. asurname

• (source of a river):水源 (shuǐyuán),源頭／源头 (yuántóu)
• (source):

(Sixth grade kyōiku kanji)

• Go-on:ごん(gon)
• Kan-on:げん(gen,Jōyō)^{←げん(gen,historical)←ぐゑん(gwen,ancient)}
• Kan’yō-on:がん(gan)^{←ぐわん(gwan,historical)}
• Kun:みなもと(minamoto,源,Jōyō)
• Nanori:はじめ(hajime)、もと(moto)、よし(yoshi)

Derived from水(mi,“water”,combining form) +‎な(na,Old Japanese possessive particle) +‎元,本(moto,“origin,source”).^[1][2]

Vovin believes that thena in the initialmina- element is not a genitive particle, but rather actually meant "water", contending that themi was instead the honorific prefix御(mi-).^[3] See also港(minato,“sluice; port”).

• (Tokyo)みなもと[mìnámótó] (Heiban – [0])^[2]
• IPA^(key): [mʲina̠mo̞to̞]

源(みなもと)• (minamoto) 

1. afountainhead(source of ariver)

   Synonym:水源(suigen)

2. asource,origin

   Synonyms:起源(kigen),根源(kongen),本源(hongen)

源(みなもと)• (Minamoto) 

1. asurname,especially those who aredescendants ofEmperor Saga

FromMiddle Chinese源 (MC ngjwon).

源(げん)• (gen) 

1. asource,origin

源(げん)• (gen) 

1. fountainhead
2. source,origin
3. short for源氏(Genji):Minamotoclan

• “源”, in漢字ぺディア [Kanjipedia]‎^[1] (in Japanese),The Japan Kanji Aptitude Testing Foundation,2015–2025

源• (won) (hangeul원,revised won,McCune–Reischauer wŏn,Yale wen)

1. aspring
2. source

源:Hán Nôm readings:nguồn,nguyên,ngùn,nguyễn

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