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植根

zhí gēn

2-character word

What 植根 means

1. to take root
2. to establish a base

The characters in 植根

• 植zhíto plant
• 根gēnroot; basis; classifier for long slender objects, e.g. cigarettes, guitar strings

Example sentences

• 生肖文化深深植根于人们的日常生活和语言文化中。
  Shēngxiào wénhuà shēnshēn zhígēnyú rénmen de rìcháng shēnghuó hé yǔyán wénhuà zhōng.
  The culture of the Chinese zodiac is deeply rooted in people's lives, language and literature.

Words starting with 植根

• 植根于zhí gēn yúto be rooted to; to take root in

Sounds the same

Read zhí gēn, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 直根taproot (main root growing vertically down)