禍根

See also: 祸根

Chinese

		disaster	radical (chem.); root; basis
trad. (禍根)		禍	根
simp. (祸根)		祸	根

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): huògēn

  (Zhuyin): ㄏㄨㄛˋ ㄍㄣ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): wo⁶ gan¹
• Hakka (Sixian, PFS): fo-kîn
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): ē-kun / ē-kin / hō-kun / hō-kin

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: huògēn
    • Zhuyin: ㄏㄨㄛˋ ㄍㄣ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: huògen
    • Wade–Giles: huo⁴-kên¹
    • Yale: hwò-gēn
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: huohgen
    • Palladius: хогэнь (xogɛnʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /xu̯ɔ⁵¹ kən⁵⁵/
      
  • (Standard Chinese, erhua-ed)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: huògēnr
    • Zhuyin: ㄏㄨㄛˋ ㄍㄣㄦ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: huògenr
    • Wade–Giles: huo⁴-kên¹-ʼrh
    • Yale: hwò-gēnr
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: huohgel
    • Palladius: хогэньр (xogɛnʹr)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /xu̯ɔ⁵¹ kəɻ⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: wo⁶ gan¹
    • Yale: woh gān
    • Cantonese Pinyin: wo⁶ gan¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: wo⁶ gen¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /wɔː²² kɐn⁵⁵/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Neipu)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: fo-kîn
    • Hakka Romanization System: fo gin^ˊ
    • Hagfa Pinyim: fo⁴ gin¹
    • Sinological IPA: /fo⁵⁵ kin²⁴/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: ē-kun
    • Tâi-lô: ē-kun
    • Phofsit Daibuun: exkwn
    • IPA (Taipei): /e³³⁻¹¹ kun⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Xiamen): /e²²⁻²¹ kun⁴⁴/
  • (Hokkien: General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: ē-kin
    • Tâi-lô: ē-kin
    • Phofsit Daibuun: exkyn
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /e³³⁻²¹ kin⁴⁴/
  • (Hokkien: General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: hō-kun
    • Tâi-lô: hō-kun
    • Phofsit Daibuun: hoixkwn
    • IPA (Taipei): /ho³³⁻¹¹ kun⁴⁴/
  • (Hokkien: General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: hō-kin
    • Tâi-lô: hō-kin
    • Phofsit Daibuun: hoixkyn
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /hɤ³³⁻²¹ kin⁴⁴/

Noun

禍根

1. root of the trouble; cause of the ruin

   • 鏟除這兩方面的禍根，才能使黨在團結全黨同志和團結全國人民的偉大事業中暢行無阻。 [MSC, trad.]
     铲除这两方面的祸根，才能使党在团结全党同志和团结全国人民的伟大事业中畅行无阻。 [MSC, simp.]

     From: 1942, 毛澤東 (Mao Zedong), 《整頓黨的作風》 (Rectify the Party's Style of Work), 《毛澤東選集》. English translation based on the Foreign Languages Press edition

     Chǎnchú zhè liǎng fāngmiàn de huògēn, cái néng shǐ Dǎng zài tuánjié quándǎng tóngzhì hé tuánjié quánguó rénmín de wěidà shìyè zhōng chàngxíngwúzǔ. [Pinyin]

     Only by uprooting this cause [of Party disunity] in both its aspects can the Party advance unimpeded in its great task of achieving unity among all Party comrades and among all the people of our country.

Synonyms

• (literary) 禍本／祸本 (huòběn)
• 禍胎／祸胎 (huòtāi)

Japanese

Kanji in this term
禍	根
か Grade: S	こん Grade: 3
on'yomi

Alternative spelling
禍根 (kyūjitai)

Pronunciation

• (Tokyo) かこん [kàkóń] (Heiban – [0])^[1]
• IPA^(key): [ka̠kõ̞ɴ]

Noun

禍(か)根(こん) • (kakon) 

1. ruin; cause of one's trouble^[2]

   禍根(かこん)を残(のこ)さない

   kakon o nokosanai

   to leave not a trace of the root of trouble

References

1. Hirayama, Teruo, editor (1960), 全国アクセント辞典 (Zenkoku Akusento Jiten, “Nationwide Accent Dictionary”) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Tōkyōdō, →ISBN
2. Taishukan's Genius Japanese-English Dictionary, Tōkyō: Taishukan, 1998.