刨根

lit. to dig up the root / to get to the heart of (the matter)

Characters and words in 刨根

bào = b + ao4

carpenter's plane / to plane (woodwork) / to shave off / to peel (with a potato peeler etc)

páo = p + ao2

to dig / to excavate / (coll.) to exclude / not to count / to deduct / to subtract

bào = b + ao4

variant of 刨[bao4]

ge̅n = g + (e)n1

root / basis / classifier for long slender objects, e.g. cigarettes, guitar strings / CL:條|条[tiao2] / radical (chemistry)

根 = 木 + 艮 : Guy Fawkes hates Christmas, so he his especially annoyed when he sees a Christmas tree even in front of the encampment. He takes out his chewing gum, sticks it to the tree's star and pulls it as long as he can to see if he can beat his record. Afterwards he wants to wrap the Christmas tree with the chewing gum.

Words with 刨根

to dig up roots and inquire at the base (idiom); to get to the bottom of sth

r

erhua variant of 刨根[pao2 gen1]

Sentences with 刨根

刨根 currently does not appear in any sentence.