lit. to examine roots and inquire at the base (idiom); to get to the bottom of sth
trad. 盤根究底
Also written 盤根究底【pán gēn jiū dǐ】
Characters in this word
4盘
Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0
tray; plate; dish, (finance) (bound form) market prices, (computing) (bound form) disk, to coil (a rope, pigtail etc), to check; to examine; to investigate, to transfer; to sell (property), to shift; to move (sth big and heavy), classifier for things resembling a plate or dish, classifier for coils, classifier for games or matches (chess, table tennis etc)
- Pinyin
- pán
- Traditional
- 盤
- Strokes
- 11
- Frequency
- 15471 of 2500
根
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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
究
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after all, to investigate, to study carefully, Taiwan pr. [jiu4]
- Pinyin
- jiū
- Strokes
- 7
底
Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0
(equivalent to 的 as possessive particle)
- Pinyin
- de
- Strokes
- 8
- Frequency
- 10646 of 2500