Level VI of XX on the frequency path
Frequency rank 761 / 2,608
Mid-frequency: not on every page, but regular in books and magazines.
More common than 因 (Cause), less common than 授 (Instruct).
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.
源 is rank 761 of 2,608 in published Japanese.
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