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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
- —元気者lively person; spirited person; energetic person; live wire
- —元始祭Festival of Origins (January 3)
- —元帥府Supreme Military Council (1898-1945)
- —元老院(Roman) senate
- —莢隠元green beans; French beans; string beans
- —四次元fourth dimension; four dimensions; 4D
- —多元論pluralism
- —多次元multidimensional
- —二元的dual
- —二元論dualism
- —二次元two dimensions; fictional (in relation to anime, manga, etc.); drawn; two-dimensional
- —空元気putting on a brave face; put-on cheeriness; pretending one is fine; show of courage; bravado; Dutch courage
- —新紀元new era; new epoch
- —低次元low-level; trivial; coarse; vulgar; low-dimension
- —大元帥commander-in-chief; generalissimo
- —紀元節Empire Day (February 11th; national holiday held from 1872 to 1948)
- —元禄袖short and round sleeves of a kimono
- —単位元identity element; neutral element
- —復元力righting moment; restoring force; stability
- —長元坊common kestrel (Falco tinnunculus)