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yuán

surname Yuan; (Japanese surname) Hara

adjective HSK 3.0 · Band 5

Watch it being written

Every character draws itself, stroke by stroke. Then grab the brush: trace it yourself and hear the word when you finish.

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Build with these blocks

Chinese words snap together like bricks. Every word below shares a character with this one, so you are already halfway to knowing it.

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See it in sentences

请你原谅我。

Please forgive me.

这是原来的样子。

This is how it looked originally.