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Mythic Mandarin

来源 (lái yuán): meaning and stroke order

来源 (lái yuán) means source (of information etc), origin.

来源

Simplified
来源
Traditional
來源
Pinyin
lái yuán

Stroke order of 来源

来

  • lái to come; (used as a substitute for a more specific verb)
  • 7 strokes
  • Traditional form: 來

Stroke by stroke

源

  • yuán root; source
  • 13 strokes

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 来源

  1. lái yuán Traditional 來源
    • source (of information etc)
    • origin

Radicals of the characters

来
Radical 木 (Kangxi radical 75) · 7 strokes · built from 未 and 丷
源
Radical 水 (Kangxi radical 85) · 13 strokes · 氵 on the left, 原 on the right

Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan database. Structure: the shapes a character is written with (BabelStone IDS), not necessarily parts that carry meaning or sound.

Dictionary data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Stroke data: Hanzi Writer data, derived from Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License). Animation: Hanzi Writer (MIT licence). Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan (Unicode License v3).