根源 gēnyuán▶ ราก

Stroke order

根源 is written in 23 strokes across 2 characters.

• 根 — 10 strokes
• 源 — 13 strokes

Senses

1. origin
2. root (cause)

Related words

• 来源แหล่งที่มา
• 源泉ต้นน้ำ
• 电源แหล่งจ่ายไฟ
• 起源ต้นกำเนิด
• 归根到底ทุกที่ทุกเวลา
• 根深蒂固หยั่งรากลึก; ฝังแน่น

根源 is pronounced gēnyuán and means “ราก”. It belongs to the HSK 6 vocabulary, one of the six bands of the Hanyu Shuiping Kaoshi, China’s official Chinese proficiency exam. Recognising 根源 on a page and producing it in conversation are different skills, and only the second holds up when someone is waiting for an answer — so LexiTrail brings it back just as your memory of it starts to fade, not on a fixed weekly rota.