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[1] root of a plant [2] foundation; basis [3] origin; source; cause [4] completely; thoroughly [5] [mathematics] root of a number [6] [chemistry] radical [7] [classifier] a piece of (stick, rope, cigarette, etc) Default PoS: Additional PoS: Show all nouns that can use this classifier Stroke count: 10
Level: 3
Radical: 木 (#75)
This character is used in both Cantonese and Mandarin/Standard written Chinese. |
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This word has been viewed 8956 times since 30th Oct 2012, was added by sheik on 18th Mar 2007 21:22 and last edited on 8th Jul 2009 20:45 |
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髮根 faat3 gan1 = hair root; hair roots 山根 saan1 gan1 = root of the nose; foot of a mountain 銀根 ngan4 gan1 = the money market; money 平方根 ping4 fong1 gan1 = square root 斬草除根 zaam2 cou2 ceoi4 gan1 = (saying) to pull up by the roots - to completely eradicate 阿根廷 aa3 gan1 ting4 = Argentina 根本 gan1 bun2 = basically 根本上 gan1 bun2 soeng6 = basically 培根 pui4 gan1 = bacon 根據 gan1 geoi3 = [1] according to; [2] based on, basis; [3] foundation (4) reference See all 73 compounds |
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Showing all 4 examples containing 根
我根本阻住唔到佢 粵
I just wasn't able to stop him. [Lit. I basically block-not-arrive him. The construction verb-m4-dou2 indicates an inability to complete the action. So, block-not-arrive is idiomatically "unable to block".] |