- to cut weeds and eliminate the roots (idiom); to destroy root and branch
- to eliminate completely
Characters
- 斩 (斬): to behead (as form of capital punishment); to chop
- 草 (艸): variant of 草[cao3]
- 除 (除): to get rid of; to remove; to exclude; to eliminate; to wipe out; to divide; except; not including
- 根 (根): root; basis; classifier for long slender objects, e.g. cigarettes, guitar strings; CL:條|条[tiao2]; radical (chemistry)
Resources
- Wiktionary: 斩草除根
- MDBG: 斩草除根
- Examples with 斩草除根 on Tatoeba
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