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U+6839, 根
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6839

[U+6838]
CJK Unified Ideographs
[U+683A]

Translingual

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Han character

(Kangxi radical 75, +6, 10 strokes, cangjie input 木日女 (DAV), four-corner 47932, composition )

Derived characters

  • 𬓓 𬕤 𦶠 𡏒 𬻩

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 524, character 7
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 14745
  • Dae Jaweon: page 912, character 9
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1208, character 2
  • Unihan data for U+6839
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Chinese

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Glyph origin

More information Historical forms of the character 根, Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) ...

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

Etymology

Possibly of Austroasiatic origin (Schuessler, 2007). Compare Proto-Mon-Khmer *(d)kər (tree, plant) (whence Proto-Vietic *kəl > Vietnamese cây, Muong câl), *d₂gəl ~ d₂g(əə)l (trunk; stump) (whence Khmer គល់ (kŭəl, stump; floating log), Proto-Monic *t(l)gəl (stump)).

Alternatively, Smith (2011) proposes a derivation from (OC *kɯː, “grassroot”) with redundant nominalizing suffix *-n. See for more.

Pronunciation


Note:
  • Meixian:
    • gin1 - vernacular;
    • gên1 - literary.

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Definitions

  1. (botany) root (Classifier: m)
       shùgēn   root of a tree
  2. base; basis; foundation
  3. family root; ancestors
       xúngēn   to search for one's ancestral roots
  4. (figurative) descendant; offspring
  5. source; origin
  6. (figurative) penis (Classifier: m)
  7. (Buddhism) indriya; faculty; spiritual faculty
  8. (arithmetic) root
    均方   jūnfānggēn   root mean square
  9. (mathematics) solution to an algebraic equation (Classifier: m)
  10. (chemistry) radical
  11. (computing) root
    目錄目录   gēn mùlù   root directory
    分區分区   gēn fēnqū   root partition
  12. completely; from the source
  13. Classifier for long, slender objects, such as cigarettes, fingers, candles, ropes, and guitar strings. all nouns using this classifier

Synonyms

  • (descendant):
  • (source):
  • (arithmetic root): 方根 (fānggēn)
  • (classifier):

Compounds

References

  • ”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database), 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014
  • 李如龙 [Li, Ru-long]; 刘福铸 [Liu, Fu-zhu]; 吴华英 [Wu, Hua-ying]; 黄国城 [Huang, Guo-cheng] (2019), “”, in 莆仙方言调查报告 [Investigation Report on Puxian Dialect] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), Xiamen University Press, →ISBN, page 230.
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