Phonetic script (Hanyu Pinyin)
gēnbĕn
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English translations
basic, root, at all, simply, thoroughly,
radical, entirely, completely, radically
Chinese characters:
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根本 ( genben / gēnbĕn ) is composed of these characters:
根 (gen)
,
本 (ben)
The traditional Chinese characters of gēnbĕn are identical with the modern (simplified) characters displayed above.
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root | original
根本 ( genben / gēnbĕn ) belongs to the 1000 most common composed words in Chinese language (rank 660)
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