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元 kanji
beginning, former time, origin
- JLPT level
- N4 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N5 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 4
- School grade
- Grade 2 (elementary school)
On readings
ゲンガン
Kun readings
もと
Words with 元
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —元弘の乱Genkō War (1331-1333); Genkō Incident
- —元弘の変Genkō Incident (1331-1333); Genkō War
- —仏滅紀元Buddhist calendar
- —元始天尊Yuanshi Tianzun (one of the supreme divinities of Taoism)
- —利益還元returning profits to customers; lowering prices to make up for profits (e.g. from exchange rate changes); distribution of profits (to staff, shareholders)
- —元気でねtake care; take good care of yourself
- —幼保一元administrative unification of day-care centers and kindergartens
- —無次元量dimensionless quantity
- —無限次元infinite-dimensional
- —元和偃武Genna armistice (period following the fall of Osaka Castle in 1615)
- —一元描写description from one perspective
- —人類紀元Holocene Era (calendar year numbering system); Human Era
- —多元宇宙multiverse
- —稀有元素rare element
- —希少元素rare element
- —次元削減dimensionality reduction; dimension reduction
- —元朝秘史The Secret History of the Mongols (the oldest surviving Mongolian-language literary work)
- —還元主義reductionism
- —元禄時代Genroku period (1688-1704); Genroku era
- —元気づけるto pep up; to cheer up