Chinese Character Wiki
根

gēn

root

Phonosemantic compound. 木 represents the meaning and 艮 represents the sound.

Components
木 meaning component

木  Meaning component

mù

  

tree

艮 sound component

艮  Sound component

gěn, gèn

  

blunt

Evolution

根 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
根 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
根 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

根  

gēn

root, base(d on); foundation; root; basis; classifier for long slender objects, e.g. cigarettes, guitar strings; CL:條|条[tiáo]; radical (chemistry)

Most common words with 根
Freq.
Word
Meaning

根本

basic

根据

according to

根

root

阿根廷

Argentina

根源

origin

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[k]ˤə[r]

kon

gēn

root, trunk


Statistics

HSK level 4

Appears in 84.5107% of movies

371st most common character in movies

352nd most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

10

Unicode

U+6839

Shuowen

“根，木株也。从木，艮聲。”


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