A kanji
原
meadow, original, primitive, field, plain, prairie, tundra, wilderness
- 10 strokes
- Taught in grade 2 (kyōiku kanji)
- No. 172 of 2,500 in newspapers
On'yomi
ゲン
Kun'yomi
はら
Stroke order
Stroke order is from KanjiVG, copyright Ulrich Apel, under CC BY-SA 3.0. A kanji is drawn only where KanjiVG and KANJIDIC2 count the same number of strokes.
Shapes inside it
The shapes EDRDG's KRADFILE lists 原 as containing. It is a lookup aid for finding a kanji by its parts: it says what the character contains, not where it comes from, and a shape need not be a kanji.
Written with 原 20 words
Grouped by JLPT level, easiest first, and oldest first within a level.
JLPT N4 · 1 word
JLPT N3 · 1 word
JLPT N2 · 5 words
JLPT N1 · 13 words
- 原文げんぶんthe text, original
- 原則げんそくprinciple, general rule
- 原点げんてんorigin (coordinates, starting point)
- 原典げんてんoriginal, source
- 原爆げんばくatomic bomb
- 原油げんゆcrude oil
- 高原こうげんtableland, plateau
- 原形げんけいoriginal form, base form
- 原型げんけいprototype, model, archetypal
- 原作げんさくoriginal work
- 原子げんしatom
- 原書げんしょoriginal document
- 原っぱはらっぱopen field, empty lot, plain
Some of these words show it as a part of their “Taken apart” row: see the words taken apart with 原.
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