根深叶茂 Save Sign in to save words Traditional (Taiwan): 根深葉茂 gēnshēnyèmào ㄍㄣ ㄕㄣ ㄧㄝˋ ㄇㄠˋ deep roots and vigorous foliage (idiom) well established and growing strongly fig. Character by character 根(gēn)root 深(shēn)deep 叶(yè)surname Ye 茂(mào)luxuriant A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0