JLPT N4
beginning, former time, origin
- Strokes
- 4 画
- Taught in
- grade 2
- Frequency
- #192 in newspapers
Readings
- 音 On
- ゲンガン
- 訓 Kun
- もと
Write it
1234
Press play to watch the stroke order, then write it yourself — start at the blue dot.
Words written with 元
- 地元home areaN1
- 元originN3
- 元凶ringleader
- 元帥(field) marshal
- 元禄Genroku era (1688.9.30-1704.3.13)
- 元旦New Year's Day
- 耳元close to the ear
- 元よりfrom the beginning
- 襟元(around the) neck
- 窯元pottery (i.e. the place)
- 元々originallyN2
- 元年first year (of an imperial era)N1
- 元来originallyN1
- 元気livelyN5
- 元素elementN1
- 元首sovereignN1
- 手元at handN1
- 還元restorationN1