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  *本* | 本* | *本
(bound form) root; stem / (bound form) origin; source / (bound form) one's own; this / (bound form) this; the current (year etc) / (bound form) original / (bound form) inherent / originally; initially / capital; principal / classifier for books, periodicals, files etc
HSK 1
cause / origin / root cause / reason / CL: 個|个
HSK 2
native place / place of origin / home state or region
HSK 4
source (of information etc) / origin
HSK 4
artificial / man-made / having human cause or origin / human attempt or effort
HSK 7-9
(in) the original place / the place where one currently is / place of origin / local (product)
HSK 7-9
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  *母* | 母* | *母
mother / elderly female relative / origin / source / (of animals) female
HSK 6
place of origin / birthplace / source
HSK 7-9
source (of a product) / place of origin / manufacturing location
HSK 7-9
origin / to originate / to come from
HSK 7-9
to be born of / to come from / family background / class origin
HSK 7-9
Charles Darwin's "On the Origin of Species"
original source / place of origin / provenance
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  *源* | 源* | *源
root / source / origin
origin
HSK 7-9
has its origins in
HSK 7-9
traceable to the same stock (idiom); of a common origin (of trends, ideas etc)
source; origin; fountainhead
HSK 7-9
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  *胎* | 胎* | *胎
fetus / classifier for litters (of puppies etc) / padding (in clothing or bedding) / womb carrying a fetus / (fig.) origin / source / (loanword) tire
HSK 7-9
etymology / origin of a word
origin of mankind
main content / matter / work / origin of an incident / cause / purpose / subject (of business letter)
source (esp. of quotation or literary allusion) / origin / where sth comes from
origin / root (cause)
HSK 7-9
origin / source / relationship
HSK 7-9
etymology (of a non-Chinese word) / origin of a character
homology (biology) / a common origin
unidentified origin / no-one knows where it comes from / of dubious background
to set (sth) afoot / to initiate / beginning / origin / commencement
fountainhead / well-spring / water source / fig. origin
HSK 7-9
certificate of origin (CO or CoO) (commerce)
starting point / square one / (coordinate geometry) origin
family of origin
to originate / origin; genesis / account of the origins of an endeavor
to investigate the origin of sth / to trace a river upstream back to its source
to share the same origins; to have common roots
Charles Darwin (1809–1882), British biologist, author of "On the Origin of Species" 物種起源|物种起源 / Darwin, capital of the Northern Territory (Australia)
to pursue sth back to its origins / to trace back to the source / to get to the bottom of sth
choronym (a family's region of origin, used as an indicator of superior social status in a surname-choronym combination) (For example, the Tang writer Han Yu 韓愈|韩愈 is also known as 韓昌黎|韩昌黎, where 韓|韩 is his surname and 昌黎 is his clan's ancestral prefecture .)
(attributive) of Japanese origin
(of watercourses) source and course / origin and development
incoming road / origin / past history
country of origin
lit. floating wine goblets on a stream / the origin (of some phenomenon)
overseas Chinese / persons of Chinese origin having foreign citizenship
history / antecedents / origin
HSK 7-9
time immemorial / origin of the universe / the world
one's ancestral home (registered place of family origin, typically inherited patrilineally and recorded in official documents)
to be of humble origin (idiom)
origin of a name
Origin of Dharma (in Buddhism) / source of the law
to originate; to initiate / beginning; origin
modulus (distance from the origin in polar coordinates)
cognate; words having a common origin
place of origin / source (of a war or a social movement)
to trace sth back to its origin
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  *肇* | 肇* | *肇
the start / the origin
extreme point / pole / the origin (in polar coordinates)
(idiom) of unknown origin; of dubious background
of humble origin
hot and sour noodles (Sichuan-origin dish made with starch-based noodles)
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  *端* | 端* | *端
old variant of / start / origin
HSK 6
single origin out of Africa (current mainstream theory of human evolution)
(slang) EA's Origin platform
cause / origin
MIURA Baien (1723-1789), Japanese neo-Confucian philosopher and pioneer economist, author of The Origin of value 價原|价原
condyloma (genital wart of viral origin) / Condyloma acuminatum
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  *倪* | 倪* | *倪
(literary) small child / (literary) limit; bound; extremity / (literary) to differentiate / (literary) origin; cause
theory of single origin (of mankind)
origin / source
ancestral home; domicile of origin
start and end (dates) / origin and destination


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