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根
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Definitions
- 1. root
- 2. basis
- 3. classifier for long slender objects, e.g. cigarettes, guitar strings
- 4. radical (chemistry)
Example Sentences
1 shown謠言並無 根 據。
Sentence data courtesy of Tatoeba.org.
Words Containing 根
cube root (math.)
to investigate (sth) thoroughly
Guernsey (Channel Islands)
to pursue sth back to its origins
branching root
roots
root system
Jurgen (name)
radical sign √ (math.)
root of tooth
Heineken (Dutch brewing company)
deep-rooted (problem etc)
succulent root (botany)
fig. a tree may grow a thousand zhang high, but its leaves return to their roots (proverb)
Urgench, city in Uzbekistan
factual basis
to root out
underlying cause of poverty
Hakone, city on the east coast of Japan southwest of Tokyo
ultimately
one's true nature (Buddhism)
(lit. and fig.) to uproot
see 咬緊牙關|咬紧牙关[yǎo jǐn yá guān]
Groningen, province and city in the Netherlands
the Schengen area, a passport-free zone in Europe
the root cause (of evil)
Lake Michigan, one of the Great Lakes 五大湖[wǔ dà hú]
root of chord
negative ion
stolon
Thuringia (state in Germany)
grassroots netizens
to trace something to its source (idiom)
lifeblood
Genhe, county-level city, Mongolian Gegeen-gol xot, in Hulunbuir 呼倫貝爾|呼伦贝尔[hū lún bèi ěr], Inner Mongolia
Morgan Freeman, American actor
root of the trouble
hydroxide radical (-OH)
to eradicate
ear
base of operations
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[yī téng bó wén] in 1909
to take root
square root
foundation
root of tooth
lit. to examine roots and inquire at the base (idiom); to get to the bottom of sth
Morgan Stanley (financial services company)
Reagan (name)
lit. to examine roots and inquire at the base (idiom); to get to the bottom of sth
base of the ear
see 樹高千丈，葉落歸根|树高千丈，叶落归根[shù gāo qiān zhàng , yè luò guī gēn]
conjugate surd (math.)
stubble
twisted roots and intertwined joints (idiom); complicated and very tricky
see 追根究底[zhuī gēn jiū dǐ]
see 咬緊牙關|咬紧牙关[yǎo jǐn yá guān]
an only child
according to
credulous
short-stem Ardisia (Ardisia brevicaulis)
root beer
Guggenheim (name)
to cure completely
Michigan, US state
Harlingen, the Netherlands
see 追根溯源[zhuī gēn sù yuán]
(math.) root of unity
air plant (Bryophyllum pinnatum)
Michigan, US state
stub
acetyl radical CH3COO-
fundamental
surd (math.)
to trace sth back to its source
foot of a wall
lit. cut grass and pull out roots (idiom); fig. to destroy root and branch
who do (you) think (you) are?
root canal therapy (dentistry)
stem compound
lit. to dig up the root
fibrous roots
(coll.) dim-witted
Erlangen (town in Bavaria)
surd (math.)
indigo woad root
to dig up roots and inquire at the base (idiom); to get to the bottom of sth
aerial root (botany)
a falling leaf returns to the roots (idiom); everything has its ancestral home
Morgan (name)
Ghent, city in Belgium
Bergen
(linguistics) root
Argentina
Getting Home, 2007 PRC comedy-drama film directed by 張揚|张扬[zhāng yáng], starring 趙本山|赵本山[zhào běn shān]
to eavesdrop
(math.) root (as in \fourth root (∜)\, 4次方根[sì cì fāng gēn])
to gossip
deep roots and vigorous foliage (idiom)
Guggenheim (name)
Francis Bacon (1561-1626), English Renaissance philosopher and early scientist
origin
common coding for components of Chinese character
money market
see 命根[mìng gēn]
to seek one's roots
ipecac
ticket stub
aerial root (botany)
to get to the heart of the matter
tree roots
sections of a city close to the city wall
a strand of hair
to bring under permanent control
(literary) idiot
in the final analysis
back of tongue
lit. to examine roots and inquire at the base (idiom); to get to the bottom of sth
to cut weeds and eliminate the roots (idiom); to destroy root and branch
(linguistics) analytic language
to take root
taproot (main root growing vertically down)
hydroxide ion OH-
see 一條繩上的螞蚱|一条绳上的蚂蚱[yī tiáo shéng shàng de mà zha]
root
Copenhagen or København, capital of Denmark
(idiom) in the final analysis
Francis Bacon (1561-1626), English Renaissance philosopher and early scientist
bacon (loanword)
credulous
penis
lit. a hair plucked from (person A) would be thicker than (person B)'s waist (idiom)
according to provisions
after all
Eriugena, John Scottus (c. 810-880) Irish poet, theologian, and philosopher of Neoplatonism
Morgan (name)
real root (of a polynomial)
foundation
Wittgenstein (name)
to take root
stubborn
Häagen-Dazs
to track sth to its roots
lateral root (botany)
a double root of an equation
the whys and the wherefores
lit. to examine roots and inquire at the base (idiom); to get to the bottom of sth
root tuber
Genhe, county-level city, Mongolian Gegeen-gol xot, in Hulunbuir 呼倫貝爾|呼伦贝尔[hū lún bèi ěr], Inner Mongolia
component of a Chinese character
Taiwan equivalent of 里根[lǐ gēn]
conjugate surd (math.)
Scheveningen, resort in Den Haag (The Hague), Netherlands
perennial root (botany)
to be rooted to
Felix Klein's Erlangen program (1872) on geometry and group theory
lit. ears pure and peaceful (idiom)
the straw that broke the camel’s back (idiom)
at the base
vetiver grass (Vetiveria zizanoides)
grass roots (lit. and fig.)
horseradish
to eradicate
the innermost depths of one's heart
University of Michigan
fundamental law
Cymbidium macrorrhizum Lindl.
Guggenheim Aeronautical Laboratory at the California Institute of Technology (GALCIT, from 1926)
lit. to examine roots and inquire at the base (idiom); to get to the bottom of sth
to pull up by the roots
Schengen, village in Luxemburg, location of the 1985 signing of the agreement to create the Schengen area 申根區|申根区[shēn gēn qū]
rhizome (biol.)
an incompletely cured illness
to return home (after a lifetime's absence)