Kilo Lingo

原

yuán

Traditional: 原

#5070 of 5,000 Core 5000

Translation

original, source

Stroke order

Stroke order for 原

原

Examples

迟chí？

What's the reason he was late?

！

So you're here too!

。

Please forgive my mistake.

。

Please keep it in its original state.

。

The original plan has already been changed.

原 (yuán) means original or source. It anchors 原因 (cause), 原来 (originally, or 'so it turns out'), and 原谅 (to forgive, literally to allow the original).

Related words

原来

originally, as it turned out, so

原谅

forgive, excuse, pardon

原因

reason, cause, motive

Appears in 3 words

Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 原.

原因yuán yīnreason, cause, motive原来yuán láioriginally, as it turned out, so原谅yuán liàngforgive, excuse, pardon

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This word is part of lesson 102.