Illustration: In an established pottery studio, a skilled potter kneels beside a battered little hand wheel kept beneath shelves of accomplished ceramics. On the wheel sits a small, uneven bowl with a distinctive thumb dent.

JLPT N1nounLevel estimated by Bebop

原げん点てん

genten

starting point, origin

Example sentences

  1. 「究極きゅうきょくの善ぜんと究極きゅうきょくの悪あくのロボットバトル」が発想はっそうの原点げんてんになっている。

    The origin of its concept is 'robot battle between the ultimate good and the ultimate evil.'

    KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

  2. いずれにせよ観察かんさつから何なにかを感かんじることは生物学せいぶつがくでは発想はっそうの原点げんてんとして重要じゅうようである。

    Whatever the case may be in the field of biology, it is important to feel something from an observation as a starting point of an inspiration.

    KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

  3. 巫女舞みこまいの原点げんてんは神かみがかりの儀式ぎしきにあったといわれている。

    Mikomai dances are said to have originated in Shinto rituals in which humans were possessed by gods.

    KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

Kanji in 原点

  • 原meadow; originalOnゲンKunはら
  • 点spot; pointOnテンKunつける・つく・たてる

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