Entry
  1. Noun, Suru verb, Intransitive verb

    going to the source; tracing to the origin

    Formal or literary term

Also written 溯源【さくげん】

Pitch on OJAD

Characters in this word

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go upstream, retrace the past

Kun
さかのぼ.る
On
サク
Strokes
13
Taught
Junior high
Radical
walk

Built from

Dictionary and index codes (16)
CodeReference
3-3-10, 3-4-10SKIP code
3a10.2The Kanji Dictionary
3730.2Four corner code
9061Unicode hex code
1-33-44JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
4727Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
6094New Nelson (John Haig)
3257New Japanese-English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
4040Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2785Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
2847Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
2111Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
39048XMorohashi
1989Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
su4Pinyin reading
soKorean reading
Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0

source, origin

Kun
みなもと
On
ゲン
Strokes
13
Taught
Grade 6
JLPT
N1
Frequency
738 of 2500
Radical
water
WaniKani
Level 34

Built from

Used in names as

はらみなもと

Dictionary and index codes (31)
CodeReference
1-3-10SKIP code
3a10.25The Kanji Dictionary
3119.6Four corner code
341deroo
6e90Unicode hex code
1-24-27JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
2656Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
3274New Nelson (John Haig)
656New Japanese-English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
806Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
470Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
600Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
142Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
153Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
827A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
1863Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
893Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
17926Morohashi
853A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
580Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
589Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1486Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
864henshall3
958Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
854Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1231Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
144Les Kanjis dans la tête (Yves Maniette)
yuan2Pinyin reading
weonKorean reading
n1JLPT level (KANJIDIC2)
34WaniKani level