キゲン
Meanings
Noun
1. origin; beginning; source; rise
Pitch accent
ゲン
Used in vocabulary (3 in total)
On the Origin of Species (Charles Darwin, 1859); origin of species
theory of origins; origin hypothesis
Examples (8 in total)
Buddhism had its beginnings in India.
This word is also French in origin.
The origin of the universe will probably never be explained.