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Chinese Character/Word:

Definition(s) for: 刨根

Hanzi Pinyin Definition(s)
刨根 páo gēn - lit. to dig up the root
- to get to the heart of (the matter)

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
- - - - 78,390

Individual Character Breakdown:

Simp Pinyin Eng
bào- carpenter's plane
- to plane (woodwork)
- to shave off
- to peel (with a potato peeler etc)
páo- to dig
- to excavate
- (coll.) to exclude
- not to count
- to deduct
- to subtract
bào- variant of 刨[bao4]
gēn- root
- basis
- classifier for long slender objects, e.g. cigarettes, guitar strings
- CL:條|条[tiao2]
- radical (chemistry)

Other Words Containing 刨根

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
刨根问底 - - 24,126 69,438 50,747