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
- —職人根性spirit of true craftsman; (craftsman's) pride in his work
- —事大根性slavish submission to power; sycophancy; flunkeyism; toadyism
- —商人根性mercantile disposition; having a nose for profit; commercialism; mercenary spirit
- —俗物根性snobbery; snobbishness; philistinism; vulgar and ostentatious nature (disposition)
- —町人根性townsman's (independent) spirit; mercantile spirit
- —党派根性partisan spirit (prejudice); partisanship; factionalism
- —奴隷根性servile character (disposition)
- —根気よくpatiently; with perseverance
- —根管治療root canal treatment; root canal therapy; endodontic treatment
- —桜島大根Sakurajima daikon (the largest variety of radish in the world)
- —セネガ根dried senega root
- —大根焚きdaikon-offering ceremony (Ryotokuji temple, Kyoto)
- —浅漬大根half-dried daikon, salted and picked in kōji
- —外生菌根ectomycorrhiza
- —内生菌根endomycorrhiza
- —ブリ大根yellowtail and daikon cooked with soy sauce
- —根本分裂fundamental schism (between the early Sthaviravāda and Mahāsāṃghika Buddhist schools)
- —根性なしcoward; gutless person; sissy; weakling; loser; milquetoast; good-for-nothing
- —不尽根数surd; irrational root
- —根詰めるto persevere; to keep at something (regardless of one's fatigue)