原

Stroke order

原 (Kangxi radical 27, 厂+8, 10 strokes, cangjie input 一竹日火 (MHAF), four-corner 7129₆, composition ⿸厂⿱白小)

• 傆, 𠺿, 塬, 㟲, 㥳, 獂, 源, 嫄, 榞, 㷧, 㹉, 螈, 羱, 縓, 豲, 謜, 䝠, 𨪛, 騵 (𫘪), 䴨, 願 (𫖸), 㟶, 蒝, 愿, 厵

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 162, character 3
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 2973
• Dae Jaweon: page 368, character 23
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 74, character 9
• Unihan data for U+539F

Historical forms of the character 原
Western Zhou	Warring States	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Bronze inscriptions	Chu slip and silk script	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

Ideogrammic compound (會意／会意) : 泉 (“spring”) + 厂 (“cliff”) – a spring bursting from a cliff-side – origin.

The sense “source, origin; basic, primary” is perhaps related to 元 (OC *ŋon, “head; principal; first; great”) (Qiu, 1988). According to Schuessler (2007), in Shijing 原 meant "a plain" as well as "highland", thus perhaps also related to 元 (OC *ŋon) (see also Qiu, 2000).

元 and 原 had been used interchangeably in the sense "origin" until 原 became favoured in the early Ming dynasty to avoid the name of the Yuan dynasty. Confer 元由, 元來／元来 and 元配.[1]

原

1. meadow; field; plain; prairie; tundra; wilderness
2. source; origin; beginning
3. Original form of 源 (yuán, “fountainhead; source”).
4. basic; fundamental
5. original; primary
6. originally; at the beginning
7. to originate; to arise
8. to trace the source; to probe into
9. (literary, or in compounds) to forgive; to pardon

   原諒／原谅  ―  yuánliàng  ―  to forgive

   原宥  ―  yuányòu  ―  to forgive

   原情 [Hokkien]  ―  goân-chêng [Pe̍h-ōe-jī]  ―  to forgive

10. a surname: Yuan

• (originally):

• (to forgive):

• “原”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎, 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

(grade 2 “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: はら (hara, 原, Jōyō); たずねる (tazuneru, 原ねる); もと (moto, 原); ゆるす (yurusu, 原す)
• Nanori: た (ta); ばる (baru); ら (ra); わた (wata); わら (wara)

From Old Japanese. Found in the Man'yōshū, finished some time after 759 CE. Compare Korean 벌 (beol, “plain, field”).

• (Tokyo) は​ら [háꜜrà] (Atamadaka – [1])[1]
• IPA^(key): [ha̠ɾa̠]

原(はら) • (hara) 

1. meadow, plain, field

Specifically refers to a field that is not cultivated.

原(はら) • (Hara) 

1. a surname

From Middle Chinese 原 (MC ngjwon, “source; origin; beginning”).

• (Tokyo) げ​ん [géꜜǹ] (Atamadaka – [1])[1]
• IPA^(key): [ɡẽ̞ɴ]

原(げん) • (gen) 

1. the original thing

原(げん) • (gen-) 

1. the original

   原(げん)文(ぶん)、原(げん)材料(ざいりょう)

   genbun, gen-zairyō

   original document, original / raw materials

From Middle Chinese 原 (MC ngjwon).

• (SK Standard/Seoul) IPA^(key): [wʌ̹n]
• Phonetic hangul: [원]

Wikisource 原 (eumhun 언덕 원 (eondeok won))
原 (eumhun 근원 원 (geunwon won))

1. Hanja form^? of 원 (“meadow”).
2. Hanja form^? of 원 (“origin”).

• 국제퇴계학회 대구경북지부 (國際退溪學會 大邱慶北支部) (2007). Digital Hanja Dictionary, 전자사전／電子字典.

原: Hán Nôm readings: nguyên, nguyễn

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