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Chinese Character/Word:
Definition(s) for: 斩草除根
| Hanzi | Pinyin | Definition(s) |
|---|---|---|
| 斩草除根 | zhǎn cǎo chú gēn | - to cut weeds and eliminate the roots (idiom); to destroy root and branch - to eliminate completely |
List Ranking:
Where rank 1 is most common, and higher numbers are less common.
| HSK 2 Level (2012) | HSK 3 Band (2022) | SUBTLEX-CH | BeijingUni Global | BeijingUni Weibo |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| - | 9 | 24,118 | 66,586 | 57,034 |
Individual Character Breakdown:
| Simp | Pinyin | Eng |
|---|---|---|
| 斩 | zhǎn | - to behead (as form of capital punishment) - to chop |
| 草 | cǎo | - grass - straw - manuscript - draft (of a document) - careless - rough - CL:棵[ke1],撮[zuo3],株[zhu1],根[gen1] |
| 草 | cào | - variant of 肏[cao4] |
| 草 | cǎo | - variant of 草[cao3] |
| 除 | chú | - to get rid of - to remove - to exclude - to eliminate - to wipe out - to divide - except - not including |
| 根 | gēn | - root - basis - classifier for long slender objects, e.g. cigarettes, guitar strings - CL:條|条[tiao2] - radical (chemistry) |
Other Words Containing 斩草除根
Sorted by the 'SUBTLEX-CH' rank because that seems like the most reliable. Words without a SUBTLEX-CH rank are ignored for being too rare.
| Word | HSK 2 Level (2012) | HSK 3 Band (2022) | SUBTLEX-CH | BeijingUni Global | BeijingUni Weibo |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 斩草除根 | - | 9 | 24,118 | 66,586 | 57,034 |