# 源 — Origin

Frequency rank 761 / 2,608 in published Japanese.

Mid-frequency: not on every page, but regular in books and magazines.

More common than 因 (Cause), less common than 授 (Instruct).

- On’yomi: げん
- Kun’yomi: みなもと
- Radical: 水 Water (Kangxi 85)
- Frequency path: Level VI of XX
- School grade: 6
- Strokes: 13

A tsunami on the left crashes into the origin radical on the right -- the tsunami flows back to its origin, the source spring from which all water comes.

In words:

- 源 みなもと — source;origin
- 資源 しげん — resources
- 電源 でんげん — source of electricity;power (button on TV  etc.)

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