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On-Yomi: ゲン — Kun-Yomi: みなもと

Koohii stories:

1) [dogen2] 17-3-2007(146): The water that flows from the meadow is the source of life for the wild antelope.

2) [ziggr] 14-8-2006(74): The source of clean water is from the meadow (#134 原): it comes from that spring at the bottom of the cliff. Pay no attention to Julie Andrews lying face down in spring. The water's clean. Trust me.

3) [mdspencer] 11-2-2009(65): Water is the source of a meadow's beauty.

4) [Danieru] 11-11-2007(31): Here the SOURCE of water is deep beneath the ground (cliff) - it seeps up, joins the water springs, flows through the meadow, and down the waterfall at the end. (NOTE- to keep spring (133) and source separate, remember that a spring can be anywhere above ground; but the source of water is deep beneath the ground (cliff), and flows up through the ground to join springs and streams - which is why there are two primitives for water in this kanji).

5) [rgravina] 20-5-2007(23): Bottled water companies assure us that the source of their water is from some beautiful meadow-spring in the Swiss Alps, but we all know they just bottle up tap water.

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