原谅
yuánliàng · HSK 6
excuse
🙏 yuan-liang sounds like you are lenient — you pardon them
原 means original/source, 谅 means to understand/forgive. Together: going back to the source of understanding — forgiving. Being lenient at the origin, letting it go.
原 — cliff 厂 + spring 泉 (white 白 + water 水)
Originally a pictograph showing a spring of water flowing out from beneath a cliff, depicting the source of a stream. From this concrete image of a water source, the meaning extended to 'origin,' 'source,' and 'original.' A separate character 源 was later created with the water radical 氵 to keep the literal 'spring' sense.