げん
Meanings
Noun
1. origin; beginning; source; rise
Kanji used
to occur
source
Pitch accent
げん
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Used in vocabulary (3 in total)
On the Origin of Species (Charles Darwin, 1859); origin of species
theory of origins; origin hypothesis
Examples (8 in total)
Buddhism had its beginnings in India.
This word is also French in origin.
The origin of the universe will probably never be explained.