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根gēn基jī

  1. foundation

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Japanese data from JMdict, JMnedict, KANJIDIC2, and RADKFILE/KRADFILE (EDRDG). Chinese from CC-CEDICT. French and English from English Wiktionary via Wiktextract. Example sentences from Tatoeba. Stroke diagrams from KanjiVG. JLPT levels follow Jonathan Waller's lists. Full credits on the data and licences page.

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根
Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0

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

Pinyin
gēn
Strokes
10
Frequency
5176 of 2500
Words starting with 根Words ending in 根Anywhere in a word
基
Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0

(bound form) base; foundation, (bound form) radical (chemistry), (bound form) gay (loanword from English into Cantonese, Jyutping: gei1, followed by orthographic borrowing from Cantonese)

Pinyin
jī
Strokes
11
Frequency
3484 of 2500
Words starting with 基Words ending in 基Anywhere in a word