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元

Level II of XX on the frequency path

Frequency rank 221 / 2,608

Origin

On’yomi
げん、がん
Kun’yomi
もと
Radical
儿 Legs (Kangxi 10)
School grade
2
Strokes
4

Frequent enough that you will keep running into it once you read past headlines.

More common than 悪 (Bad), less common than 加 (Add).

The two bare shins straddle a wet hole in the dirt, and every stroke of the character is still coming up out of it, wet at the root and dry higher up.

In words

元気 げんき health, vitalityN5
元 もと (1) origin,original,(2) formerN3
元々 もともと originally,by nature,from the startN2

元 is rank 221 of 2,608 in published Japanese.

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