Zi:原

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[yuán] originally; 原​ it turns out; original; 原​ cause; ​原 plain [yuàn]

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A ​ (quán) spring gushing out from a ​ cliff, the origin of the water. Now ​ yuán with an added ​(​ shuǐ ‘water’) means ‘origin’, and 原 means ‘originally’. In 原, the bottom of ​ quán has become abbreviated from ​ to ​ (xiǎo ‘small’).
►references: Guǎngyùn:113.02; Wieger:59c,125f; Henshall:107; Karlgren:AD1344,GSR258a; Hànyǔ Dà Zìdiǎn:1.74.9; Lindqvist:66; Mathews:7725; Kāngxī Zìdiǎn:162.03; Bǐshùn Guīfàn:150.0.03
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