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Chinese begins with basics like characters, builds up to words, and reaches idioms. This free resource introduces advanced idioms like 「拔樹搜根」, with details below.

Here’s the idiom 「拔樹搜根」, with its definition and practical application described below.

A metaphor for getting to the bottom of things and conducting a thorough investigation.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

bá shù sōu gēn

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

bat6 syu6 sau2 gan1

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