源 yuán
- Strokes
- 13
- Radical
- 氵 — water
- Made of
- 氵 water 原 source, origin, beginning
- How it's built
- Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound
源源不断
yuányuánbúduàn
continuously; in an unbroken stream
Characters in this word
不 bù
- Strokes
- 4
- Radical
- 一 — one
- How it's built
- Ideograph — the meaning is built from its parts
断 duàn
- Strokes
- 11
- Radical
- 斤 — axe
- How it's built
- Ideograph — the meaning is built from its parts
Example phrases
- 山泉水源源不断地流入村庄，居民再也不愁用水了。 Shānquán shuǐ yuányuánbúduàn de liú rù cūnzhuāng, jūmín zài yě bù chóu yòngshuǐ le. Spring water flows into the village in an unbroken stream, so the residents no longer worry about water.
- 新的订单源源不断，工厂不得不增加夜班工人。 Xīn de dìngdān yuányuánbúduàn, gōngchǎng bùdébù zēngjiā yèbān gōngrén. New orders keep coming in nonstop, so the factory had to add night-shift workers.
- 这条小河源源不断地向下游农田提供灌溉用水。 Zhè tiáo xiǎohé yuányuánbúduàn de xiàng xiàyóu nóngtián tígōng guàngài yòngshuǐ. This small river continuously supplies irrigation water to the farmland downstream.
Related words
- 电源 diànyuán power supply
- 来源 láiyuán source
- 资源 zīyuán resources
- 能源 néngyuán energy
- 起源 qǐyuán to originate; origin
- 新能源 xīnnéngyuán new energy
- 源于 yuányú to originate from
- 发源 fāyuán to originate; to rise from
- 发源地 fāyuándì place of origin; source
- 根源 gēnyuán root cause; source; to be rooted in
- 水源 shuǐyuán water source
- 渊源 yuānyuán origin; historical roots