原
yuányuàn HSK2

source

原 yuán frequency
origin noun
(bound form) origin; source; beginning
to excuse verb
(bound form) to excuse; to forgive; to pardon
original adjective
(bound form) original; primary; former
originally adverb
(adverb) originally; as it turns out; at first

我原以为他在我后面。

wǒ yuán yǐ​wéi tā zài wǒ hòu​miàn.

I had thought he was behind me.

raw adjective
(bound form) raw; unprocessed; crude
plain noun
(bound form) plain; plateau; field
to trace
(literary) to trace back to a source; to investigate the root cause
Yuan
the Chinese surname Yuan
Hara
a Japanese surname
原 yuàn
honest
(archaic) honest; cautious; prudent

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Frequency
Character
Written text
193rd most common 1072.7 per million
Movie subtitles
346th most common 454.2 per million appears in 89% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
49.5 per million appears in 17% of films
Written text
171.9 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 4
HSK 3.0
Level 2
Strokes
10
Unicode
U+539F

Sources
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)