搜根问底

搜根问底 in English

sōu gēn wèn dǐ
(idiom) To keep asking about the causes and consequences of something and investigate all its details.

Character breakdown

Stroke order

Le caractère 根 tracé avec le numéro de chaque trait à son point de départ
Numbered strokes
Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 根 Show the animation

Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.

Le caractère 问 tracé avec le numéro de chaque trait à son point de départ
Numbered strokes
Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 问 Show the animation

Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.

Le caractère 底 tracé avec le numéro de chaque trait à son point de départ
Numbered strokes
Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 底 Show the animation

Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.

How it used to be written

搜

  • Small seal script: 搜 Small seal script

根

问

These are the forms of 問, the traditional character: 问 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.

底

  • Warring States script: 底 Warring States script 戰國.秦
  • Small seal script: 底 Small seal script

Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).

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