| 斩草除根 |
zhǎn cǎo chú gēn |
to cut weeds and eliminate the roots (idiom); to destroy root and branch / to eliminate completely |
| 斩 |
zhǎn |
to behead (as form of capital punishment) / to chop |
| 草 |
cǎo |
variant of 草 |
| 草 |
cǎo |
grass / straw / manuscript / draft (of a document) / careless / rough / CL:棵,撮,株,根 |
| 草 |
cào |
variant of 肏 |
| 除 |
chú |
to get rid of / to remove / to exclude / to eliminate / to wipe out / to divide / except / not including |
| 除根 |
chú gēn |
to root out / to eliminate the roots / to cure once and for all |
| 根 |
gēn |
root / basis / classifier for long slender objects, e.g. cigarettes, guitar strings / CL:条 / radical (chemistry) |