根

根 U+6839, 根 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6839 ← 核 [U+6838] CJK Unified Ideographs 栺 → [U+683A]

Stroke order

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

• 𬓓 𬕤 𦶠 𡏒 𬻩

• 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

simp. and trad.		根

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

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 荄 (OC *kɯː, “grassroot”) with redundant nominalizing suffix *-n. See 荄 for more.

根

1. (botany) root (Classifier: 條／条 m)

   樹根／树根  ―  shùgēn  ―  root of a tree

2. base; basis; foundation
3. family root; ancestors

   尋根／寻根  ―  xúngēn  ―  to search for one's ancestral roots

4. (figurative) descendant; offspring
5. source; origin
6. (figurative) penis (Classifier: 條／条 m)
7. (Buddhism) indriya; faculty; spiritual faculty
8. (arithmetic) root

   均方根  ―  jūnfānggēn  ―  root mean square

9. (mathematics) solution to an algebraic equation (Classifier: 個／个 m)
10. (chemistry) radical
11. (computing) root

    根目錄／根目录  ―  gēn mùlù  ―  root directory

    根分區／根分区  ―  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

• (descendant):

• (source):

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

• “根”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎^[2], 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

(Third grade kyōiku kanji)

1. root
2. base, foundation

• Go-on: こん (kon, Jōyō)
• Kan-on: こん (kon, Jōyō)
• Kun: ね (ne, 根, Jōyō)

Kanji in this term
根
ね Grade: 3
kun'yomi

From Old Japanese. First cited to the Kojiki of 712.^[1]

• (Tokyo) ね [néꜜ] (Atamadaka – [1])^[2][3][4]
• IPA^(key): [ne̞]

根(ね) • (ne) 

1. [from 712] a root of a plant
2. [from 720] (by extension) the source or root of something
3. [from 1000] the cause or basis for something
4. [from mid-1300s] one's nature, the character one has by birth

• 根(ね)っ子(こ) (nekko)

• 白根(シロネ) (shirone)

Kanji in this term
根
こん Grade: 3
on'yomi

From Middle Chinese 根 (MC kon). First cited in Japanese contexts in the 法華義疏 (Hokke Gisho) dated to 615,^[1] a commentary on the Buddhist Lotus Sutra that was written in Classical Chinese.

• (Tokyo) こん [kóꜜǹ] (Atamadaka – [1])^[2][3]
• IPA^(key): [kõ̞ɴ]

• (Tokyo) こん [kòń] (Heiban – [0])^[3][4] for the sense of "perseverance, patience"
• IPA^(key): [kõ̞ɴ]

根(こん) • (kon) 

1. [from 615] (Buddhism) the original motive force leading to perception of something by the five senses or by thought
2. [from 1477] genitals; more commonly, the male genitals
3. [from 1790] perseverance, patience

   Synonym: 根気 (konki)

4. [from 1889] (mathematics) a root, such as a square root (calque of English root)

根 (eumhun 뿌리 근 (ppuri geun))

1. hanja form^? of 근 (“root; base; stump”)

• 根源 (근원, geunwon)

(Third grade kyōiku kanji)

Cognate with Japanese 根 (ne).

根(にー) (nī) 

1. root

根: Hán Nôm readings: căn, cằn, cỗi

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