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根本
  gan1 bun2   jyutping
  gen1 ben3   pinyin
basically, fundamentally, actually, essentially


Level: 3   Google Frequency: 6,390,000

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

This word has been viewed 5242 times since 30th Oct 2012, was added by ray_siu on 21st Jan 2005 16:20 and last edited on 30th Oct 2008 19:03
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Characters in this word:

 gan1  -  root; foundation
 bun2  -  basis; original; copy

1 compounds containing this word:

根本上 - basically

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detail 根本阻住
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".]
detail 根本就係藤㨢瓜瓜㨢藤
These two matters are deeply entangled together. There is no way to separate them apart.
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