Illustration: At a Japanese toy maker's workbench, a rough hand-carved wooden rabbit stands beside an open mold and several smooth finished rabbits. All share the same unusual bent ear and rounded belly, making their relationship clear.

JLPT N1prefixLevel estimated by Bebop

原げん

gen

original, primary

Used before another word, as in 原型. Note written by AI.

Example sentences

その中なかの1首しゅで、冒頭ぼうとうに置おかれたものが「君きみが代よ」の原げん歌かである。
One of those poems, placed at the beginning, is the original verse of “Kimigayo.”
KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source
原げん表記ひょうきは「亀かめノ尾お」。
The original spelling was “Kame no O.”
KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source
彼かれは原案げんあんに固執こしつした。
He adhered to the original plan.
Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

Kanji in 原

原meadow; originalOnゲンKunはら

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