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根

根

Translingual

Han character

根 (radical 75 木+6, 10 strokes, cangjie input 木日女 (DAV), four-corner 47932, composition ⿰木艮)

References

  • KangXi: page 524, character 7
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 14745
  • Dae Jaweon: page 912, character 9
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1208, character 2
  • Unihan data for U+6839

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 根

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (艮) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
艱 *krɯːn
齦 *kʰrɯːnʔ, *kʰɯːnʔ, *ŋɯn
眼 *ŋrɯːnʔ
蛝 *ɡrɯːn
限 *ɡrɯːnʔ
硍 *ɡrɯːnʔ
豤 *kʰɯːnʔ, *kʰɯːnʔ, *kʰuːn
詪 *ɡlɯːnʔ, *kɯːnʔ, *kɯːns
根 *kɯːn
跟 *kɯːn
珢 *kɯːn, *kɯːns, *ŋrɯn
艮 *kɯːns
茛 *kɯːns
墾 *kʰɯːnʔ
懇 *kʰɯːnʔ
垠 *ŋɯːn, *ŋrɯn, *ŋɯn
泿 *ŋɯːn, *ŋrɯn
痕 *ɡɯːn
拫 *ɡɯːn
鞎 *ɡɯːn
很 *ɡɯːnʔ
恨 *ɡɯːns
銀 *ŋrɯn
檭 *ŋrɯn

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *kɯːn) : semantic 木 + phonetic 艮 ‎(OC *kɯːns).

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 根
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 見 (28)
Final (韻) 痕 (53)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) I
Fanqie 古痕切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /kən/
Pan
Wuyun		 /kən/
Shao
Rongfen		 /kən/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /kən/
Li
Rong		 /kən/
Wang
Li		 /kən/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /kən/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 gēn
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 根
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 gēn
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ kon ›
Old
Chinese		 /*[k]ˤə[r]/
English root, trunk

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 根
Reading # 1/1
No. 3920
Phonetic
component		 艮
Rime
group		 文
Rime
subdivision		 1
Corresponding
MC rime		 根
Old
Chinese		 /*kɯːn/

Definitions

根

  1. (botany) root   (Classifier: 條／条 m)
  2. base; basis; foundation
  3. family root; ancestors
  4. descendant; offspring
  5. source; origin
  6. (figuratively) ****   (Classifier: 條／条 m)
  7. (Buddhism) indriya; faculty; spiritual faculty
  8. (mathematics) root
  9. (mathematics) solution to an algebraic equation   (Classifier: 個／个)
  10. (chemistry) radical
  11. completely; from the source
  12. Classifier for long, slender objects, such as cigarettes, fingers, candles, ropes, guitar strings.  ⇒ all nouns using this classifier

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

根

(grade 3 “Kyōiku” kanji)

  1. root
  2. base, foundation

Readings

Compounds

Etymology 1

Kanji in this term
根
ね
Grade: 3
kun'yomi

Pronunciation

Noun

根 ‎(hiragana ね, romaji ne)

  1. a root
  2. the source; the root
  3. nature; one's character that one have by birth
Synonyms

Etymology 2

Kanji in this term
根
こん
Grade: 3
on'yomi

Pronunciation

Noun

根 ‎(hiragana こん, romaji kon)

  1. perseverance, patience
  2. (arithmetic) root
Synonyms

References

  1. 1 2 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, ISBN 4-385-13905-9
  2. 1 2 3 1998, NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 (NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK, ISBN 978-4-14-011112-3

Korean

Hanja

根 • ‎(geun) (hangeul 근, revised geun, McCune-Reischauer kŭn, Yale kun)

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Okinawan

Kanji

根 ‎(hiragana にー, romaji nī)

Compounds

Etymology

Cognate with mainland Japanese 根 ‎(ne).

Noun

根 ‎(hiragana にー, romaji nī)

  1. root

Vietnamese

Han character

根 (căn, cằn, cỗi)

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