原
yuánYuán HSK2

source

原 yuán frequency
original adjective
former, original, or primary

他搬回了原处。

tā bān huí le yuán chù.

He moved back to the original place.

source noun
the cause, origin, or source of something

凡事若不究其本原，很难从根本上解决问题。

fán shì ruò bù jiū qí běn yuán, hěn nán cóng gēn​běn shàng jiě​jué wèn​tí.

If you don't look into the root cause of a matter, it's hard to solve the problem fundamentally.

level noun
level ground or a plain

华北平原土地肥沃。

Huá​běi píng yuán tǔ​dì féi​wò.

The soil of the North China Plain is fertile.

raw noun
unprocessed or in its natural state

原油的价格上涨了。

yuán yóu de jià​gé shàng​zhǎng le.

The price of crude oil has gone up.

原 Yuán
Yuan proper name
surname Yuan

原先生是我们的领队。

Yuán xiān​sheng shì wǒ​men de lǐng​duì.

Mr. Yuan is our team leader.

Hara proper name
Japanese surname Hara

这位著名的日本导演姓原。

zhè wèi zhù​míng de Rì​běn dǎo​yǎn xìng Yuán.

This famous Japanese director's surname is Hara.

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
Definitions
CC-CEDICT
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)