Kanji1 / 10
根 kanji
root, radical, head (pimple)
- JLPT level
- N2 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N3 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 10
- School grade
- Grade 3 (elementary school)
On readings
コン
Kun readings
ね-ね
Words with 根
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —根性論belief that where there's a will, there's a way
- —根野菜root crops
- —大根餅turnip cake (dim sum dish); radish cake
- —沼大根Adenostemma lavenia (species of flowering plant)
- —根生葉radical leaf; rosette
- —根出葉radical leaf; rosette; basal leaf
- —花大根sweet rocket (Hesperis matronalis); dame's rocket; dame's violet; damask violet; Chinese violet cress (Orychophragmus violaceus)
- —根性悪ill-natured; twisted; ill-natured person; twisted person
- —担根体rhizophore
- —陸蓮根okra (Abelmoschus esculentus)
- —三善根three wholesome roots (no coveting, no anger, no delusion)
- —呼吸根pneumatophore; respiratory root
- —神経根nerve root
- —不定根adventitous root; adventive root
- —一次根primary root; main root
- —同根語cognate
- —鮭大根dish of salmon and daikon
- —抜根機stump puller; rooter
- —寄生根haustorium; parasitic root
- —根性焼きcigarette burn