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元 yuán yuan
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#301
Chapter-18 HSK-A
4 strokes
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Compositions
Explanation of characters by Herbert A. Giles
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Yüan is composed of 一 i one, and 兀 wu which originally meant high and level. Hence it means beginning, origin. It here stands for the Mongol dynasty, the foundations of which were laid by Genghis Khan, the first actual Emperor being Kublai Khan, A.D. 1260–1295. It was formerly classed under radical 一 i one, but in K'ang Hsi's dictionary it was stupidly placed under 人 jen man. |
Chinese-English (CC-CEDICT)
元
yuán
currency unit (esp. Chinese yuan)/first/original/primary/fundamental/constituent/part/era (of a reign)/(math.) argument/variable/(Tw) (geology) eon/surname Yuan/the Yuan or Mongol dynasty (1279-1368)
Phrases ending with the given character
不bù
定dìng
元yuán
indeterminate element (math.), often denoted by x
八bā
位wèi
元yuán
8-bit (computing)
千qiān
位wèi
元yuán
kilobit
单單dān
位位wèi
元元yuán
identity element (math.)
大大dà
纪紀jì
元元yuán
Epoch Times, US newspaper
姚yáo
文wén
元yuán
Yao Wenyuan (1931-2005), one of the Gang of Four
崔cuī
永yǒng
元yuán
Cui Yongyuan (1963-), TV presenter
新新xīn
纪紀jì
元元yuán
new era/new epoch/New Age (movement)
有yǒu
限xiàn
元yuán
finite element (method)
李lǐ
伯bó
元yuán
Li Boyuan or Li Baojia 李寶嘉|李宝嘉 (1867-1906), late Qing journalist, novelist and social observer, author of Observations on the current state of officialdom 官場現形記|官场现形记
柳liǔ
宗zōng
元yuán
Liu Zongyuan (773-819), Tang essayist and poet, advocate of the classical writing 古文運動|古文运动 and neoclassical 復古|复古 movements
神神shén
经經jīng
元元yuán
neuron