surname Yuan / (Japanese surname) Hara

= + + : Mnemonic symbol: I like how 原子, literally "original seed", means "atom". I'll represent 原 by 原子弹, an atomic bomb.

= + + : In the anthill's kitchen Yu the Great is modding a chocolate factory into a nuclear chocolate factory by powering it with an atomic bomb. Because it is hard to look inside the bomb through it's small opening, she uses a hand mirror to see inside and connect the wires. She also used a lot of daisies to decorate the bomb and underline her peaceful intentions.
former / original / primary / raw / level / cause / source

= + + : Mnemonic symbol: I like how 原子, literally "original seed", means "atom". I'll represent 原 by 原子弹, an atomic bomb.

= + + : In the anthill's kitchen Yu the Great is modding a chocolate factory into a nuclear chocolate factory by powering it with an atomic bomb. Because it is hard to look inside the bomb through it's small opening, she uses a hand mirror to see inside and connect the wires. She also used a lot of daisies to decorate the bomb and underline her peaceful intentions.

原 character breakdown

"cliff" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 27), occurring in 原, 历, 压 etc
small / tiny / few / young

= + : Mnemonic symbol: a small daisy. 小 looks like the stem 亅 of the flower is pushing aside the earth 八 as it grows out of the seed in the ground.

Xi Shi (xi) is decorating her hair with lots of small (小) daisies (mnemonic symbol for 小) in the aorta's living room (ao3). She wants to have lots of daisies in the future as well, so she plants new daisies. She found that the perfect substrate for planting daisies is made by crushing eight-balls (八) with a crow bar (亅).
factory / yard / depot / workhouse / works / (industrial) plant

Mnemonic symbol: a chocolate factory. Charlie Chaplin (ch) is overjoyed to see that in the anglepod's living room (ang3), a small chocolate factory (厂) is for sale. He buys it, shaves his mustache, grows his hair a bit and renames himself to Willy Wonka to live in the chocolate factory.
self / oneself / from / since / naturally / surely

= + : Mnemonic symbol: a hand mirror, which someone uses to look at themselves.

The Eye of Providence (目) is looking at itself (自) in a handheld mirror (自) in the space station's bathroom (Ø4). It think it's indeed looking very good, since Zorro (z) attached a petal (丶) to its eye (目).

Characters with 原 as component

honest / prudent / variant of 願|愿[yuan4]

= + : Yu the Great finds a live nuclear bomb in the anthill's bathroom and instantly occupies it. She paints hearts everywhere and sincerely hopes that no a-bomb will ever be used.
to hope / to wish / to desire / hoped-for / ready / willing

= + : Yu the Great finds a live nuclear bomb in the anthill's bathroom and instantly occupies it. She paints hearts everywhere and sincerely hopes that no a-bomb will ever be used.
root / source / origin

= + : The origin (源) of the H bomb can be traced back to when Yu the Great (yu) once forgot a lot of water bottles (氵) next to her A bomb (原) in the anthill's kitchen (an2) and accidentally detonated the bomb.
salamander / newt
plateau, esp. Loess Plateau of northwest China 黃土高原|黄土高原[Huang2 tu3 Gao1 yuan2]
name of an empress
large-horned wild goat
chestnut horse with white belly

Words with 原

sticking unmoving to the original (idiom); not an iota changed / untouched
ballpoint pen / also written 圓珠筆|圆珠笔
Yuanzhou district of Guyuan city 固原市[Gu4 yuan2 shi4], Ningxia
Yuanzhou district of Guyuan city 固原市[Gu4 yuan2 shi4], Ningxia
atomic scientist / nuclear scientist

Sentences with 原

yuán
lái
shì
wu̅
gui̅
 
 
xia̅
mǐ
èr
jiàng