Kanji1 / 13
源 kanji
source, origin
- JLPT level
- N1 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N3 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 13
- School grade
- Grade 6 (elementary school)
On readings
ゲン
Kun readings
みなもと
Variant forms
厵Words with 源
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —震源域hypocentral region
- —震源時origin time (of an earthquake)
- —源氏星Rigel (star in the constellation Orion); Beta Orionis; Beta Ori; Genji star
- —電波源radio source
- —電源車vehicle-mounted electricity generator (e.g. for filming, emergencies, etc.); power-generating railway car (e.g. for air-conditioning on a non-electric train)
- —取材源source (for a news article, etc.)
- —根源的primordial; fundamental; basic; primitive
- —小線源radioactive small source
- —引火源ignition source
- —温泉源thermal spring source; onsen source
- —源氏絵genji-e; ukiyo-e depicting scenes from The Tale of Genji
- —源氏香Genjikō; incense-comparing game with each of the 52 patterns named after a chapter of the Tale of Genji
- —夫源病physical and mental disorders in a wife due to her husband's words and actions
- —源氏豆sugar-coated soybeans
- —排出源emission source (of exhaust fumes, pollutants, greenhouse gases, etc.); pollution source
- —源泉税withholding tax; tax withheld at the source
- —源氏蛍Genji firefly (Nipponoluciola cruciata)
- —発源地source region; place of origin
- —電源席seat with a power outlet
- —漢字源Kanjigen (character dictionary published by Gakken)