to cut weeds and eliminate the roots (idiom); to destroy root and branch; to eliminate completely
trad. 斬草除根
Also written 斬草除根【zhǎn cǎo chú gēn】
Characters in this word
4斩
Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0
to behead (as form of capital punishment), to chop
- Pinyin
- zhǎn
- Traditional
- 斬
- Strokes
- 8
- Frequency
- 11375 of 2500
草
Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0
variant of 草[cao3]
- Pinyin
- cǎo
- Traditional
- 艸
- Strokes
- 9
- Frequency
- 4715 of 2500
除
Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0
to get rid of, to remove, to exclude, to eliminate, to wipe out, to divide, except, not including
- Pinyin
- chú
- Strokes
- 9
- Frequency
- 7723 of 2500
根
Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0
root, basis, classifier for long slender objects, e.g. cigarettes, guitar strings, CL:條|条[tiao2], radical (chemistry)
- Pinyin
- gēn
- Strokes
- 10
- Frequency
- 5176 of 2500