斬草除根 Save Sign in to save words Simplified: 斩草除根 On the HSK 7-9 vocabulary list, at CEFR level C2. zhǎncǎochúgēn ㄓㄢˇ ㄘㄠˇ ㄔㄨˊ ㄍㄣ 男 女 to cut weeds and eliminate the roots (idiom) to destroy root and branch to eliminate completely Character by character 斬(zhǎn)behead 草(cǎo)grass 除(chú)get rid of 根(gēn)root A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0 国际中文教育中文水平等级标准, 中华人民共和国教育部, MIT