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元
元 stroke order
beginning
former time
origin
Component Radicals
2-1-3
Jōyō 2
JLPT 3
KKD 2428
Tuttle 89
ゲン
ガン
もと
名
ちか
はじめ
はる
ゆき
よし
Related Kanji
芫
玩
阮
頑
翫
冠
院
蒄
寇
冦
Word/Phrase Reading Meaning
根本 根源 根元 根原 こんげん ねもと こんぽん
  • root
  • source
  • origin
    		•
    元 本 素 基 もと
  • origin
  • source
    		•
    足元 足下 足もと 足許 あしもと そっか
  • at one's feet
  • underfoot
  • one's step (as in "watch your step")
    		•
    地元 じもと
  • home area
  • home town
    		•
    元気 げんき
  • lively
  • full of spirit
  • energetic
    		•
    元首 げんしゅ
  • ruler
  • sovereign
    		•
    元日 がんじつ がんにち
  • New Year's Day
    		•
    身元 身許 身もと みもと
  • person's identity
  • ID
  • past
    		•
    還元 かんげん
  • reduction
  • resolution
  • deoxidization
    		•
    次元 じげん
  • dimension
    		•
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    Contents sourced from JMDict, JMNDict, KANJIDIC, Copyright © 2000-2015 EDRDG, compiled by Jim Breen, et. al. at Monash University; used under license. Radical decomposition from kradfile and kradfile2, Copyright © 2001-2012 KanjiCafe and EDRDG, compiled by Jim Rose, et. al., used under license. The System of Kanji Indexing by Patterns (SKIP) codes were developed by Jack Halpern. Copyright © 1990-2015 Jack Halpern, used under license. Stroke order diagrams generated from KanjiVG dataset, Copyright © 2009-2015 Ulrich Apel, used under license. Morphological Analysis via MeCab, Copyright © 2001-2012 Taku Kudo, © 2004-2008 Nippon Telephone and Telegraph. Adobe Kozuka Gothic Pro, Copyright © 1993-2011 Adobe Systems, Inc. M+ Fonts, Copyright © 2003-2014 Coji Morishita