Simplified | Traditional | Pinyin | English |
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根须 | 根鬚 | gēnxū | - roots |
本 | 本 | běn | - roots or stems of plants - origin - source - this - the current - root - foundation - basis - classifier for books, periodicals, files etc - originally |
芿 | 芿 | rèng | - weeds that regrow from cut-down roots |
茹 | 茹 | rú | - to eat - (extended meaning) to endure - putrid smell - vegetables - roots (inextricably attached to the plant) |
荄 | 荄 | gāi | - roots of plant |
忘本 | 忘本 | wàngběn | - to forget one's roots |
树根 | 樹根 | shùgēn | - tree roots |
归根 | 歸根 | guīgēn | - to return home (after a lifetime's absence) - to go back to one's roots |
草民 | 草民 | cǎomín | - the grass roots - the hoi polloi |
除根 | 除根 | chúgēn | - to root out - to eliminate the roots - to cure once and for all |
须根 | 須根 | xūgēn | - fibrous roots |
回老家 | 回老家 | huílǎojiā | - to go back to one's roots - to return to one's native place - by ext. to join one's ancestors (i.e. to die) |
连根拔 | 連根拔 | liángēnbá | - to pull up by the roots - to uproot |
数典忘祖 | 數典忘祖 | shǔdiǎnwàngzǔ | - to recount history but omit one's ancestors (idiom); to forget one's roots |
落地生根 | 落地生根 | luòdìshēnggēn | - air plant (Bryophyllum pinnatum) - to put down roots |
追根求源 | 追根求源 | zhuīgēnqiúyuán | - to track sth to its roots |
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