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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Cantonese

Hanzi

根 (Yale gan1)

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

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Mandarin

Pronunciation

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Hanzi

根 (pinyin gēn (gen1), shì (shi4), Wade-Giles ken¹, shih⁴)

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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Middle Chinese

Han character

根 (*gən)

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Vietnamese

Han character

根 (căn, cằn, cỗi)