根 (gan1 | gen1) : root; foundation

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根

gan1

gen1

[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)

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Stroke count: 10

Level: 3

Radical: 木 (#75)

This character is used in both Cantonese and Mandarin/Standard written Chinese.

根

This word has been viewed 11125 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 fa4 gen1 = hair root; hair roots

山根 saan1 gan1 shan1 gen1 = root of the nose; foot of a mountain

銀根 ngan4 gan1 yin2 gen1 = the money market; money

平方根 ping4 fong1 gan1 ping2 fang1 gen1 = square root

斬草除根 zaam2 cou2 ceoi4 gan1 zhan3 cao3 chu2 gen1 = (saying) to pull up by the roots - to completely eradicate

阿根廷 aa3 gan1 ting4 a1 gen1 ting2 = Argentina

根本 gan1 bun2 gen1 ben3 = basically

根本上 gan1 bun2 soeng6 gen1 ben3 shang4 = basically

培根 pui4 gan1 pei2 gen1 = bacon

根據 gan1 geoi3 gen1 ju4 = [1] according to; [2] based on, basis; [3] foundation (4) reference
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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".]

啲老樹好多根蔃粵
These old trees have lots of roots.

一個人喺異鄉無根無蔃，咩都要靠自己，真唔容易粵
To be alone in a foreign place without the support from family or society, one has to be very independent; and that can be very trying.

呢兩件事根本就係藤㨢瓜瓜㨢藤分唔開㗎粵
These two matters are deeply entangled together. There is no way to separate them apart.

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Decimal representation of this word: 根
Unicode code for this character: U+6839 (off-site link)

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