| | (bound form) root; stem / (bound form) origin; source / (bound form) one's own; this / (bound form) this; the current (year etc) / (bound form) original / (bound form) inherent / originally; initially / capital; principal / classifier for books, periodicals, files etc | HSK 1 |
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| | cause / origin / root cause / reason / CL: 個｜个 | HSK 2 |
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| | fundamental / basic / root / simply / absolutely (not) / (not) at all / CL: 個｜个 | HSK 3 |
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| | root / basis / classifier for long slender objects, e.g. cigarettes, guitar strings / CL: 條｜条 / radical (chemistry) | HSK 4 |
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| | square (as in square foot, square mile, square root) | HSK 4 |
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| | part (esp. of the body, but also of a vegetable, e.g. the root, or a garment, e.g. the sleeve, etc) | HSK 5 |
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| | specimen; sample / the root cause and symptoms of a disease | HSK 7-9 |
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| | origin / root (cause) | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to take root | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to cut weeds and eliminate the roots (idiom); to destroy root and branch / to eliminate completely | HSK 7-9 |
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| | tree trunk / stump (tree root) / a plant / classifier for trees or plants / strain (biology) / to involve others (in shady business) | HSK 7-9 |
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| | branch, esp. grass root branches of a political party | |
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| | root / source / origin | |
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| | to cheer / to root for | |
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| | licorice root | |
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| | (linguistics) root | |
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| | indigo woad root / root of Isatis tinctoria (used in TCM) | |
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| | huangqi / milk vetch root (used in TCM) / Astragalus membranaceus or Astragalus mongholicus | |
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| | root system | |
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| | to take root / to establish a base | |
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| | red root gromwell (Lithospermum erythrorhizon) / flowering plant whose roots provide purple dye / arnebia (plant genus in family Boraginaceae) | |
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| | angelica (type of iris) / plant root used in TCM | |
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| | lower body / euphemism for genitals / root and stem of plants | |
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| | to protect from wind / fangfeng (Saposhnikovia divaricata), its root used in TCM | |
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| | root of herbaceous peony (Paeonia lactiflora), used in TCM | |
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| | to tackle a problem at its root; to effect a permanent solution (contrasted with 治標｜治标) | |
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| | Chinese thorowax (Bupleurum chinense) / root of Chinese thorowax (used in TCM) | |
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| | lotus root | |
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| | Dahurian angelica (Angelica dahurica) / root of Dahurian angelica (used in TCM) | |
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| | (medicine) to write out a prescription / (math.) to extract a root from a given quantity | |
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| | component of a Chinese character / (linguistics) word root; etymon | |
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| | root of lotus | |
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| | back of tongue / tongue root / dorsal | |
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| | to root out / to eliminate the roots / to cure once and for all | |
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| | root of tooth | |
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| | to root out; to eradicate; to sweep away; to abolish | |
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| | ladybell root (Radix adenophorae) | |
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| | to treat only the symptoms but not the root cause | |
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| | Chinese knotweed (Polygonum multiflorum) / fleeceflower root | |
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| | lit. to invert root and branch (idiom); fig. confusing cause and effect / to stress the incidental over the fundamental / to put the cart before the horse | |
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| | an incompletely cured illness / an old complaint / the root cause of trouble | |
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| | to take root | |
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| | (math.) root (as in "fourth root (∜)", 4 次方根) | |
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| | to eradicate evil completely (idiom); thorough in rooting out wickedness | |
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| | root of the trouble / cause of the ruin | |
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| | root of Chinese pulsatilla / Chinese bulbul | |
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| | foundation / grounding / background / what lies at the bottom of sth / root / cause | |
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| | costus root (medicinal herb) / aucklandia / Saussurea costus / Dolomiaea souliei | |
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| | Ningpo figwort (Scrophularia ningpoensis) / root of Ningpo figwort (used in TCM) | |
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| | fibrous root | |
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| | to lie down on a bed / (physiology) implantation (attachment of a blastocyst to the lining of the uterus) / (of an oyster larva) to attach to a substrate / (fig.) to take root / to become established | |
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| | to neglect the root and pursue the tip (idiom) / to neglect fundamentals and concentrate on details | |
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| | Achyranthes bidentata (root used in Chinese medicine) | |
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| | lit. to directly attack Huanglong / fig. to directly combat the root of a problem | |
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| | to root out the strong and give people peace (idiom); to rob the rich and give to the poor | |
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| | cube root (math.) | |
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| | root tuber / tuberous root | |
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| | lateral root (botany) | |
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| | root and lower stem of certain plants / classifier for pieces and clumps | |
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| | perennial root (botany) | |
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| | foundation / root | |
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| | to treat the symptoms rather than getting to the root of the problem (proverb) / reactive (rather than proactive) | |
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| | the whys and the wherefores / the detailed story / root cause | |
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| | Ampelopsis japonica (creeper with root used in TCM) | |
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| | to root out the strong and support the weak (idiom); to rob the rich and give to the poor | |
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| | to plant roots; to propagate from root cuttings | |
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| | when the root is firm, the branches flourish | |
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| | yam bean (Pachyrhizus erosus), a vine with sweet edible root | |
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| | Ampelopsis japonica (creeper with root used in TCM) / same as 白蘞｜白蔹 | |
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| | lit. to dig up the root / to get to the heart of (the matter) | |
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| | lit. cut grass and pull out roots (idiom); fig. to destroy root and branch / to eradicate | |
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| | aerial root (botany) | |
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| | the root cause (of evil) / bane (Buddhism) | |
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| | real root (of a polynomial) | |
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| | root / foundation | |
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| | obscure variant of 悉 / Achyranthes bidentata, a root used in Chinese medicine, equivalent to 牛膝 | |
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| | branching root / rootlet | |
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| | at the base / at the root / (of a leg) just below the crutch | |
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| | root of chord | |
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| | morinda root (Morinda officinalis), plant used in Chinese medicine | |
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| | starch of pueraria root / arrowroot flour | |
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| | Notopterygium root (root of Notopterygium incisum) | |
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| | truffle (edible root fungus) | |
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| | the root of all evil | |
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| | root of tooth | |
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| | manyprickle (Acanthopanax senticosus), root used in TCM | |
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| | root canal therapy (dentistry) | |
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| | to treat the symptoms but not the root cause | |
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| | taproot (main root growing vertically down) | |
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| | the root bark of the peony tree | |
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| | Ligusticum levisticum (Chinese lovage root) / ligusticum root | |
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| | Dioscorea alata (Kinampay or aromatic purple yam, a sweet root crop) | |
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| | great burnet (Sanguisorba officinalis), a plant whose root is used in TCM / (old) (courteous) your letter | |
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| | rhizome (biol.) / root stock | |
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| | to be rooted to / to take root in | |
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| | a double root of an equation | |
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| | root mean square (RMS) / quadratic root | |
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| | square root | |
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| | fundamental theorem of algebra (every polynomial has a complex root) | |
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| | root of Vladimiria souliei (used in TCM) / Dolomiaea souliei | |
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