Chinese Vocabulary
根
root
根
gēn1st tone
- Pinyin
- gēn
- Strokes
- 10
- In episodes
- 1
Stroke order for 根
根 is written with 10 strokes. The animation replays automatically.
Usage
Beyond HSK 3. The rootstock is the root the new trees are grafted onto.
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根 appears in 1 Fluentide podcast episode at natural native speed. Each sentence plays at the easiest difficulty it exists in — switch it to hear the same moment at your level, with full pinyin and English throughout.
根死了，树也死了。
When the roots die, the tree dies too.
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