漢字Kanji · in Nature & Elements
根: root, radical
Also: head (pimple)
JLPT N210 strokesGrade 3Your ink: 白 Not met
木 carries the meaning · 艮 gives the sound
10 strokes
Small seal · Qin Today
Small seal: Wikimedia Commons, public domain. Today’s form: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Two readings, and the words that use each
コンkon · on'yomi · in compounds
- 根拠こんきょbasis
- 根性こんじょうwill-power, guts
- 根気こんきpatience
- 根本的なこんぽんてきなfundamental
- 大根だいこんJapanese white radish
- 球根きゅうこん(plant) bulb
ねne · kun'yomi · on its own
- 根ねroot
- 根元ねもとroot, base
- 根回しねまわしgroundwork, preparatory work
- 根強いねづよいfirmly rooted
- 屋根やねroof
Also read -ね, with no example words in our sources. Words: Kanji alive, CC BY 4.0.
成り立ち
Where it comes from
Memory story · made up to help you remember
“Stand before a great, ancient tree and see 木! The vertical line is the sturdy trunk, the top strokes are branches reaching for the sunlight, and the bottom strokes are the roots gripping the earth.”
繋がり
Connections
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
根 takes the 艮 family's reading, コン (kon).
In ChineseSame character in simplified and traditional · gēn
Same form: 根 is written the same way in mainland China (simplified) and in Taiwan and Hong Kong (traditional).
- Simplified
- 根 mainland China, Singapore
- Traditional
- 根 Taiwan, Hong Kong
Pinyin gēn most common reading
Forms and pinyin: Unicode Unihan database (Unicode License v3). Pinyin lists the most common reading, not every reading.
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