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斩草除根

zhǎn cǎo chú gēn

4-character word Traditional 斬草除根

What 斩草除根 means

1. to cut weeds and eliminate the roots (idiom); to destroy root and branch
2. to eliminate completely

The characters in 斩草除根

• 斩zhǎnto behead (as form of capital punishment); to chop
• 草cǎograss; straw; manuscript
• 除chúto get rid of; to remove; to exclude
• 根gēnroot; basis; classifier for long slender objects, e.g. cigarettes, guitar strings