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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unknown (e.g. in an equation); element (of a set); yuan (monetary unit of China); (Taiwan) dollar; Yuan dynasty (of China; 1271-1368); Yüan dynasty; Mongol dynasty
- —隠元common bean; green bean
- —元悪head gangster
- —元勲elder statesman
- —元軍Yuan dynasty Chinese-Mongolian military
- —元始origin
- —元標zero milestone
- —元寇Mongol invasions of Japan (1274, 1281)
- —諸元various factors or elements
- —多元pluralism; diversity
- —単元teaching unit; module
- —元服male coming-of-age-ceremony; shaving one's eyebrows, blackening one's teeth, and wearing one's hair in the marumage style (of a newly married woman; Edo period)
- —改元change of era
- —二元duality; binary (system)
- —元慶Gangyō era (877.4.16-885.2.21); Genkei era
- —貞元Jōgen era (976.7.13-978.11.29); Teigen era
- —天元tengen; central black dot on a go board; center of the board; Tengen era (978.11.29-983.4.15); Tengen (professional title)
- —長元Chōgen era (1028.7.25-1037.4.21)
- —元永Gen'ei era (1118.4.3-1120.4.10)
- —保元Hōgen era (1156.4.27-1159.4.20)