根

Translingual

Han character

根 (radical 75 木+6, 10 strokes, cangjie input 木日女 (DAV), four-corner 4793₂)

1. root, base(d on)
2. foundation

References

• KangXi: page 524, character 7
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 14745
• Dae Jaweon: page 912, character 9
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1208, character 2
• Unihan data for U+6839

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Chinese

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simp. and trad.		根

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): gēn (gen¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄍㄣ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): gan¹
• Hakka (Pha̍k-fa-sṳ): kîn
• Min Nan (POJ): kin / kun

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: gēn
    • Zhuyin: ㄍㄣ
    • Wade-Giles: kên¹
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: gen
    • IPA ^(key): /kən⁵⁵/

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• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: gan¹
    • Yale: gān
    • Cantonese Pinyin: gan¹
    • IPA ^(key): /kɐn⁵⁵/
• Hakka
  • Romanisations:
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: kîn
    • IPA (Siyen, incl. Miaoli): /kin²⁴/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: kin / kun
    • Tâi-lô: kin / kun
    • IPA (Taipei): /kin⁴⁴/, /kun⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /kin³⁴/, /kun³⁴/

Middle Chinese pronunciation (根, reconstructed)
Character (根), Pronunciation 1/1
Initial: 見 (28) Final: 痕 Division: I			Openness: Open Tone: Level (Ø)			Fanqie: 古痕切
Zhengzhang Shangfang	Bernard Karlgren	Li Rong	Pan Wuyun	Edwin Pulleyblank	Wang Li	Shao Rongfen
/kən/	/kən/	/kən/	/kən/	/kən/	/kən/	/kən/

Old Chinese pronunciation (根, reconstructed)
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character								Modern Beijing (Pinyin)								Middle Chinese								Old Chinese								English
根								gēn								‹ kon ›								/*[k]ˤə[r]/								root, trunk
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system: Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p; Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character					No.					Phonetic component					Rime group					Rime subdivision					Corresponding MC rime					Old Chinese					Notes
根					3920					艮					文					1					根					/*kɯːn/

Noun

根 (classifier 條／条)

1. root
2. basis
3. (chemistry) radical

Classifier

根

1. classifier for long slender objects, e.g. cigarettes, guitar strings

Compounds

• 根本
• 根本法
• 根除
• 根底
• 根基
• 根茎、根莖
• 根据、根據
• 根据地、根據地
• 根绝、根絕
• 根深蒂固
• 根式
• 根特

• 根音
• 根由
• 根源
• 根治
• 根状茎、根狀莖
• 海葱根、海蔥根
• 乌头根、烏頭根
• 龙胆根、龍膽根
• 葛根
• 芦根、蘆根
• 茅根

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Japanese

Noun

根 (hiragana ね, romaji ne)

1. a root
2. the source; the root
3. nature; one's character that one have by birth

Synonyms

• 根っ子 (ねっこ, nekko)

Kanji

根

(grade 3 “Kyōiku” kanji)

1. root
2. base, foundation

Readings

• On: こん (kon)
• Kun: ね (ne)

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Korean

Hanja

根 (geun) (hangeul 근, revised geun, McCune-Reischauer kŭn, Yale kun)

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Vietnamese

Han character

根 (căn, cằn, cỗi)

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