原
Meanings
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- 1.surname Yuan
- 2.(Japanese surname) Hara
- 1.former
- 2.original
- 3.primary
- 4.raw
- 5.level
- 6.cause
- 7.source
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Wiktionary
- 1.original; former; primary; prime; virgin
- 2.primitive; initial; basic; fundamental
- 3.unprocessed; raw; crude
- 4.source; origin; beginning
- 5.to forgive; to pardon; to excuse
- 6.open country; plain; field; meadow
- 7.originally; formerly; at the beginning
- 8.Original form of 源 (yuán, “fountainhead; source; origin; root”).
- 9.to trace the source; to probe into
- 10.to originate; to arise
- 11.again; once again
- 12.a surname, Yuan
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Etymology
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.
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Stroke order
Components
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Example sentences
我們原諒你。
We forgive you.
請原諒我遲到。
Please forgive me for being late.
請原諒我的魯莽。
Please excuse me for being rude.
我確實原諒湯姆。
I do forgive Tom.
所有的物件都在原處。
Everything was where it was supposed to be.
保留原狀地離開房間。
Leave the room as it is.
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