4 strokes

beginning, former time, origin

Kunもと
Onゲン、ガン

Radicals

Common words

  • 元気げんき
    lively, full of spirit, energetic, vigorous, vital, spirited, healthy, well, fit, in good health
  • 地元じもと
    home area, home town, local
  • 次元じげん
    dimension, perspective, point of reference, level (of something)
  • 元首げんしゅ
    sovereign, ruler, head of state
  • 元日がんじつ
    New Year's Day
  • 還元かんげん
    restoration, return, reduction, resolution, deoxidization, deoxidation
  • 元年がんねん
    first year (of an imperial era), year something (important) first happened or began
  • 一元いちげん
    unitary
  • 元本がんぽん
    principal (invest.), capital
  • 復元ふくげん
    restoration (to the original state or location), reconstruction, restitution
  • 中元ちゅうげん
    15th day of the 7th lunar month, (last day of) Bon lantern festival, mid-year gift, summer gift, Bon Festival gifts
  • 一元化いちげんか
    unification, centralization, centralisation
  • 元凶げんきょう
    ringleader, main culprit, main cause, source
  • 元祖がんそ
    originator, pioneer, inventor, founder, progenitor, primogenitor, founder of a family line
  • 元来がんらい
    originally, essentially, naturally, by nature, really, actually, in the first place, to begin with
  • 元帥げんすい
    (field) marshal, (fleet) admiral, general of the army
  • 紀元前きげんぜん
    pre-era, BC, BCE
  • 家元いえもと
    head of a school (of music, dance), head family of a school
  • 元禄げんろく
    Genroku era (1688.9.30-1704.3.13)
  • 親元おやもと
    one's parents' home
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