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  1. origin
  2. to originate
  3. to come from

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  • 起 (起): to rise; to raise; to get up; to set out; to start; to appear; to launch; to initiate (action); to draft; to establish; to get (from a depot or counter); verb suffix, to start; starting from (a time, place, price etc); classifier for occurrences or unpredictable events: case, instance; classifier for groups: batch, group
  • 源 (源): root; source; origin

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Examples

奥林匹克的起源是什么?

由於它的起源,加拿大英語具有美國英語和​​英國英語兩者的特色。

人們對語言的起源作出過許多猜想,但是真實的情況其實根本沒有人知道。

宇宙的起源是什么?

佛教起源於印度。

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