斩草除根 (zhǎn cǎo chú gēn) is a Chinese word meaning “to cut weeds and eliminate the roots (idiom); to destroy root and branch; to eliminate completely”.
Meanings
- 1to cut weeds and eliminate the roots (idiom); to destroy root and branch
- 2to eliminate completely
Characters in 斩草除根
Related words
根本fundamental除了apart from; besides; in addition to (used to exclude, as in 除了他，誰也沒來|除了他，谁也没来[chu2 le5 ta1 , shei2 ye3 mei2 lai2] "apart from him, nobody came", or to include, as in 除了英語，他也會法語|除了英语，他也会法语[chu2 le5 Ying1 yu3 , ta1 ye3 hui4 Fa3 yu3] "in addition to English, he also knows French")除非only if (..., or otherwise, ...)根root根据according to开除to expel (a member of an organization)草grass草variant of 草[cao3]草variant of 肏[cao4]排除to eliminate除to get rid of解除to remove