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源泉

yuán quán

Old HSK 6 HSK 3.0 level 7-9 2-character word

源泉 (yuán quán) means "fountainhead; well-spring; water source". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 源泉 means

1. fountainhead
2. well-spring
3. water source
4. fig. origin

The characters in 源泉

• 源yuánroot; source; origin
• 泉quánspring (small stream); mouth of a spring; coin (archaic)

Example sentences

• 水是生命的源泉。
  Shuǐ shì shēngmìng de yuánquán.
  Life cannot exist without water.

Where 源泉 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 6 Vocabulary · yù–yùn (HSK 6), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

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• Every HSK 6 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read yuán quán correctly.
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