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Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
nie4
Korean:
seob, jeob

Spanish

Portuguese

French

3717 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
29179 Morohashi
4741 New Nelson (John Haig)
6e12.2 The Kanji Dictionary
2-6-12 SKIP code
1044.1 Four corner code
1012.1 Four corner code
1-70-67 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
8076 Unicode hex code

4 strokes
Radical:
legs
Parts:
beginning, former time, origin
Kun:
もと
On:
ゲンガン
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 2
JLPT level N4
192 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

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On reading compounds

  • 元 【ゲン】 unknown (e.g. in an equation), element (of a set), yuan (monetary unit of China), New Taiwan dollar, Yuan dynasty (of China; 1271-1368), Yüan dynasty, Mongol dynasty
  • 原価 【ゲンカ】 cost price
  • 中元 【チュウゲン】 15th day of the 7th lunar month, (last day of) Bon lantern festival, mid-year gift, summer gift, Bon Festival gifts
  • 抗原 【コウゲン】 antigen
  • 元祖 【ガンソ】 originator, pioneer, inventor, founder, progenitor, primogenitor, founder of a family line
  • 元日 【ガンジツ】 New Year's Day

Kun reading compounds

  • 元 【もと】 origin, source, beginning, basis, base, foundation, root, cause, (raw) material, ingredient, base, mix (e.g. for a cake), (soup) stock, (one's) side, capital, principal, cost price, root (of a plant), (tree) trunk, part (of a brush, chopsticks, etc.) one holds (with the hand), first three lines of a waka, counter for plants or trees, counter for falcons (in falconry)
  • 元 【もと】 former, ex-, past, one-time, earlier times, the past, previous state, formerly, previously, originally, before
  • 家元 【いえもと】 head of a school (of music, dance), head family of a school
  • 胸元 【むなもと】 breast, chest, pit of the stomach, solar plexus, epigastrium

Readings

Japanese names:
ちか、 はじめ、 はる、 ゆき、 よし
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
yuan2
Korean:
weon

Spanish

  • comienzo
  • principio
  • origen
  • jefe

Portuguese

  • começo
  • tempo anterior
  • origem

French

  • commencement
  • origine
  • ancien temps
68 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
117 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
106 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
328 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
275 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
106 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
121 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
60 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
2.10 Japanese for Busy People
137 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
137 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
245 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
141 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
2428 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1226 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1690 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
59 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
1340 Morohashi
1929 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
343 New Nelson (John Haig)
59 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
63 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
408 The Kanji Way to Japanese Language Power (Dale Crowley)
89 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
3057 2001 Kanji
0a4.5 The Kanji Dictionary
2-1-3 SKIP code
1021.1 Four corner code
1-24-21 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
5143 Unicode hex code

11 strokes
Radical:
tree
Parts:
catalpa tree, woodblock printing
Kun:
あずさ
On:
Jinmeiyō kanji, used in names
JLPT level N1
2301 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

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On reading compounds

  • 梓 【アズサ】 Japanese cherry birch (Betula grossa), yellow catalpa (Catalpa ovata), Japanese mallotus (Mallotus japonicus), printing block, catalpa bow, catalpa medium
  • 梓宮 【シキュウ】 Emperor's coffin (made of catalpa wood)
  • 上梓 【ジョウシ】 wood-block printing, publication

Kun reading compounds

  • 梓 【あずさ】 Japanese cherry birch (Betula grossa), yellow catalpa (Catalpa ovata), Japanese mallotus (Mallotus japonicus), printing block, catalpa bow, catalpa medium
  • 梓巫女 【あずさみこ】 female medium who summons spirits by sounding the string of a catalpa bow

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
zi3
Korean:
jae, ja

Spanish

  • árbol del catalpa

Portuguese

French

  • catalpa
2268 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1366 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
2113 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1207 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
655 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
873 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1512 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
14845 Morohashi
962 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2688 New Nelson (John Haig)
1498 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1614 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
4a7.5 The Kanji Dictionary
1-4-7 SKIP code
4094.1 Four corner code
1-16-20 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
6893 Unicode hex code