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See also: 厡

Stroke order
10 strokes

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

  • 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
simp. and trad.
 原
2nd round simp. 𰆖
alternative forms 厡
邍 “plain”
𠫐
Old Chinese
羱 *ŋʷaːn, *ŋʷan
豲 *ɦŋʷaːn
謜 *sŋ̊ʰʷan, *ŋʷan
縓 *sŋ̊ʰʷan, *sŋ̊ʰʷans
原 *ŋʷan
源 *ŋʷan
厵 *ŋʷan
嫄 *ŋʷan
騵 *ŋʷan
榞 *ŋʷan
獂 *ŋʷan
蒝 *ŋʷan
願 *ŋʷans
傆 *ŋʷans
愿 *ŋʷans

Ideogrammic compound (會意 / 会意): 泉 (“spring”) + 厂 (“cliff”) – a spring bursting from a cliff-side – origin. A conservative variant is 厡, in which water is well visible at the bottom.

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]

Note:

  • nguang5 - Shantou;
  • nguêng5 - Chaozhou.
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 原 原
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		yuán yuán
Middle
Chinese 		‹ ngjwon › ‹ ngjwon ›
Old
Chinese 		/*N-ɢʷar/ /*N-ɢʷar/
English spring, source; origin high plain (n.)

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 原
Reading # 1/1
No. 16186
Phonetic
component 		原
Rime
group 		元
Rime
subdivision 		1
Corresponding
MC rime 		元
Old
Chinese 		/*ŋʷan/
Notes 金文象泉源，爲源初文

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):
  1. ^ 清·郝懿行《晉宋書故·元由》：“今人爲書元俱作原字……葢起於前明初造事涉元朝文字簿書率皆易元爲原沿至今日”

原

(Second grade kyōiku kanji)

  1. hara: meadow [1]
  2. moto: original
  3. tazuneru: to inquire
  4. yurusu: to pardon a crime
  5. gen, as a clipping of 原(げん)子(し)力(りょく) (genshiryoku): nuclear power
Kanji in this term
原
はら
Grade: 2
kun'yomi

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

原(はら) • (hara) 

  1. meadow, plain, field

Specifically refers to a field that is not cultivated.

原(はら) • (Hara) 

  1. a surname
Kanji in this term
原
げん
Grade: 2
on'yomi

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

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
  1. ^ “原”, in 漢字ぺディア [Kanjipedia]‎[1] (in Japanese), The Japan Kanji Aptitude Testing Foundation, 2015–2025
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN

From Middle Chinese 原 (MC ngjwon).

Historical Readings
Dongguk Jeongun Reading
Dongguk Jeongun, 1448 ᅌᅯᆫ (Yale: ngwèn)
Middle Korean
Text Eumhun
Gloss (hun) Reading
Hunmong Jahoe, 1527[3] 두던〮 (Yale: twùtén) 원 (Yale: wèn)

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. [4]

原: Hán Nôm readings: nguyên, nguyễn

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