Illustration: On a wooded Japanese mountainside, clear water wells from a narrow opening between mossy rocks. Immediately below, the water gathers into a tiny pool, spills over its lip, and becomes a continuous stream winding downhill through the trees.

Beyond N1nounLevel estimated by Bebop

水すい源げん

suigen

source of a river

Example sentences

川かわの始はじまるところが、水源すいげんである。
The place where a river starts is its source.
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どんな川かわにも水源すいげんがあります。
Every river has a source.
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安全あんぜんな水みずを供給きょうきゅうするため、川かわの水源すいげん地ちに森林しんりんを育そだてています。
To provide safe water, they are growing forests around the river’s source.
Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · English by AI · Source

Kanji in 水源

水waterOnスイKunみず・みず-
源source; originOnゲンKunみなもと

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