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  *根* | 根* | *根
root / basis / classifier for long slender objects, e.g. cigarettes, guitar strings / CL: 條|条 / radical (chemistry)
HSK 4
to cut weeds and eliminate the roots (idiom); to destroy root and branch / to eliminate completely
HSK 7-9
to take root
HSK 7-9
air plant (Bryophyllum pinnatum) / to put down roots
Bergen
Francis Bacon (1561-1626), English Renaissance philosopher and early scientist
(linguistics) root
indigo woad root / root of Isatis tinctoria (used in TCM)
(loanword) bacon
tuber of the kudzu vine (Pueraria lobata), used in Chinese medicine
to take root / to establish a base
to seek one's roots / to get to the bottom of a matter
(mainly used in the negative) in the first place; absolutely; simply
negative ion / acid radical
Michigan, US state
chameleon plant; fish mint (Houttuynia cordata), esp. its edible rhizome
component of a Chinese character / (linguistics) word root; etymon
tree roots
back of tongue / tongue root / dorsal
Getting Home, 2007 PRC comedy-drama film directed by 張揚|张扬, starring 趙本山|赵本山
lit. a falling leaf returns to the roots (idiom) / fig. all things go back to their source eventually / in old age, an expatriate returns home
Morgan (name)
root of tooth
base of the ear / ear / (Buddhism) sense of hearing
to trace sth back to its source / to get to the bottom of sth
(finance) money supply
grass roots (lit. and fig.)
an incompletely cured illness / an old complaint / the root cause of trouble
to take root
(math.) root (as in "fourth root (∜)", 4次方根)
root of the trouble / cause of the ruin
Copenhagen or København, capital of Denmark
reed rhizome (used in TCM)
fibrous root
foot of a wall
hydroxide radical (-OH)
root tuber / tuberous root
lateral root (botany)
stub
perennial root (botany)
to return home (after a lifetime's absence) / to go back to one's roots
Morgan (name)
(attributive) vegan
lifeblood / the thing that one cherishes most in life / (coll.) family jewels (male genitals)
a falling leaf returns to the roots (idiom); everything has its ancestral home / In old age, an expatriate longs to return home.
lit. to dig up the root / to get to the heart of (the matter)
lit. cut grass and pull out roots (idiom); fig. to destroy root and branch / to eradicate
sections of a city close to the city wall
aerial root (botany)
Thuringia (state in Germany)
Groningen, province and city in the Netherlands
the root cause (of evil) / bane (Buddhism)
real root (of a polynomial)
Jurgen (name)
the innermost depths of one's heart / (Buddhism) manas (the mind)
Hakone, city on the east coast of Japan southwest of Tokyo
penis
branching root / rootlet
to cure completely
at the base / at the root / (of a leg) just below the crutch
ipecac
root of tooth
Michigan, US state (Tw)
a strand of hair / pipe cleaner
(lit. and fig.) to uproot
ticket stub
taproot (main root growing vertically down)
Erlangen (town in Bavaria)
Taiwan equivalent of 里根
Schengen, village in Luxemburg, location of the 1985 signing of the agreement to create the Schengen area 申根區|申根区
underlying cause of poverty
An Jung-geun or Ahn Joong-keun (1879-1910), Korean independence activist, famous as assassin of Japanese prime minister ITŌ Hirobumi 伊藤博文 in 1909
square root
horseradish
surd (math.)
fig. a tree may grow a thousand zhang high, but its leaves return to their roots (proverb) / fig. everything has its ancestral home / in old age, an expatriate returns home
succulent root (botany)
acetyl radical CH3COO-
a double root of an equation
(math.) conjugate surd
(literary) idiot
Harlingen, the Netherlands
(math.) root of unity
to gossip / to argue unnecessarily
Scheveningen, resort in Den Haag (The Hague), Netherlands
aerial root (botany)
Francis Bacon (1561-1626), English Renaissance philosopher and early scientist
Heineken (Dutch brewing company) / see also 喜力
short-stem Ardisia (Ardisia brevicaulis)
cube root (math.)
to eavesdrop / to listen in secret to sb's conversations
variant of 腳跟|脚跟
Reagan (name) / Ronald Reagan (1911-2004), US president (1981-1989)
to root out / to eliminate the roots / to cure once and for all


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