root; basis; classifier for long slender objects, e.g. cigarettes, guitar strings; CL:條|条[tiao2]; radical (chemistry)

(loanword) bacon

Reagan (name); Ronald Reagan (1911-2004), US president (1981-1989)

(mainly used in the negative) in the first place; absolutely; simply

Michigan, US state

Copenhagen or København, capital of Denmark

tree roots

to take root

Hakone, city on the east coast of Japan southwest of Tokyo

Taiwan equivalent of 里根[Li3 gen1]

Michigan, US state (Tw)

grass roots (lit. and fig.)

to cut weeds and eliminate the roots (idiom); to destroy root and branch; to eliminate completely

to take root

the root cause (of evil); bane (Buddhism)

lateral root (botany)

lit. to dig up the root; to get to the heart of (the matter)

to cure completely

ipecac

(literary) idiot

lifeblood; the thing that one cherishes most in life; (coll.) family jewels (male genitals)

root tuber; tuberous root

sections of a city close to the city wall

foot of a wall

component of a Chinese character; (linguistics) word root; etymon

stub

real root (of a polynomial)

perennial root (botany)

to seek one's roots; to get to the bottom of a matter

foot of a hill or mountain; (physiognomy) root of the nose (between the eyes)

to return home (after a lifetime's absence); to go back to one's roots

the innermost depths of one's heart; (Buddhism) manas (the mind)

(lit. and fig.) to uproot

branching root; rootlet

(math.) root (as in "fourth root (∜)", 4次方根[si4 ci4 fang1 gen1])

to take root; to establish a base

a strand of hair; pipe cleaner

aerial root (botany)

(math.) to extract a root

root of tooth

Schengen, village in Luxemburg, location of the 1985 signing of the agreement to create the Schengen area 申根區|申根区[Shen1 gen1 qu1]

penis

an incompletely cured illness; an old complaint; the root cause of trouble

taproot (main root growing vertically down)

ticket stub

root of the trouble; cause of the ruin

Jurgen (name)

(attributive) vegan

base of the ear; ear; (Buddhism) sense of hearing