根

HSK 5#1181 by frequencyradical 木

gēn["q","n"]

root; basis; classifier for long slender objects, e.g. cigarettes, guitar strings; radical (chemistry)

Measure word: 条

Examples

他停下来抽根烟。

He stopped for a quick cigarette.

她停下来抽了根烟。

She stopped to smoke a cigarette.

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Definitions adapted from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0, modified). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Frequency ranks from the BCC corpus. Full credits on the Attributions page.