TSUMUGU · A2 (est.) · 字
泉
ㄑㄩㄢˊ · quán
noun — spring, fountainhead
字源 FORM — what the parts do
泉形water welling from a rock mouth and running down into streams
A spring drawn whole: the round mouth at top where water issues from the rock, the strands below spreading into 川 (streams). From the source-water it names hot springs (溫泉), spring water (泉水), and any wellspring (源泉).
故事 STORY — a scene to remember it by
石頭縫裡一個圓口，水汩汩冒上來，往下分成幾道。
A round mouth in the rock, water bubbling up and splitting downhill into threads.
字源記憶法
意 · Meanings
(本義)泉水、泉源— spring; fountainhead常用
→溫泉— hot spring常用
⇒源泉— the source — wellspring of anything
(本義) original meaning · → ⇒ each arrow = one more step of extension