Far strokes: horizontal, horizontal, left, vertical hook, dot, horizontal folding left and right.
Tracing the source of characters:
"Yuan" is generally regarded as a pictophonetic character, and the left part of Oracle Bone Inscriptions is "Yuan", which means pronunciation. The right part is "Ai", which is beside the shape, indicating that it is related to action (a long distance will take a long time). Some people think that "Yuan" has an ideographic function. The word "Yuan" in ancient times is a pictophonetic character, and the word "Yi" in the lower part is a pictograph. Its original meaning refers to the appearance of clothes that are particularly long.
Because "Yuan" has a long meaning, and "Yuan" also has a long distance meaning, the word "Yuan" is used as a phonetic symbol and is comprehensible. Some people think that "Yuan" is the same word as "_(huán)" at first, and its original meaning is a kind of jade, which has nothing to do with the original meaning of "Yuan", so it is not synonymous.
in the bronze age of the Zhou dynasty, the word "Yuan" was changed from _(chuò) and Yuan Sheng by adding a "stop" at the top or bottom, and the Warring States script, seal script, official script and regular script were all from _ and Yuan Sheng. _ is also a signifier related to action. Later, the small seal characters evolved from inscriptions on bronze. In official script and regular script, the word "_" was rewritten as "Bi", and then simplified to "Yuan", with the word "Yuan" as the phonetic symbol and "Bi (_)" as the morphological symbol, which became a simple pictophonetic character.
Interpretation of Kangxi Dictionary:
The lower part of the unitary set is far away; Kangxi strokes: 17; Outside strokes: 1.
ancient prose:? 、? .
"Guang Yun" is cut by a cloud. "Gathering Rhyme" and "Rhyme Meeting" are raining and cutting, and they are sounding. Shuo Wen: Liao Ye. Guang Yun: Far away. "Zhengyun": refers to fixing the body far and near.
Guang Yun, Jiyun and Rhyme Club are also in harmony. "Zhengyun" focuses on resentment and cuts off the sound. Zhengyun: Far away. Far and near sound, such as "Poetry", the person is far away. Far away from it, such as the Analects of Confucius: respect ghosts and gods and so on.
the leaves are cut by the staff and the sound is deep. "Poem Xiaoya": You are far away, and the people are awkward. Common work _.