源
yuán HSK4

spring

源 yuán
origin noun
(bound form) root; origin; the starting cause or basis of something

受污染的水或者冰也是一个感染源。

shòu wū​rǎn de shuǐ huò​zhě bīng yě​shì yī​ge gǎn​rǎn yuán.

Contaminated water or ice is also a source of infection.

source noun
(bound form) source of a river; fountainhead; starting point of a stream

太阳是地球上的生命之源。

tài​yang shì dì​qiú shang de shēng​mìng zhī yuán.

The sun is the source of life on earth.

Yuan
a Chinese surname

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Antonym

Frequency
Character
Written text
670th most common 300.5 per million
Movie subtitles
1,166th most common 76.2 per million appears in 32% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
9.84 per million appears in 3% of films
Written text
68.8 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 5
HSK 3.0
Level 4
Strokes
13
Unicode
U+6E90

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