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Free Chinese learning, tailored for you! This series highlights idioms and proverbs, useful in many contexts. Let’s explain 「盤根究底」 and how it’s used.

Our focus this time is on the idiom 「盤根究底」. You’ll find its definition and examples below.

Interrogate and get to the bottom of things.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

pán gēn jiū dǐ

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

pun2/pun4 gan1 gau3 dai2

Chinese idioms, with their vast variety, hold different meanings and uses. Their abundance makes studying them rewarding, and these materials are here to help you along the way.