追根溯源 Save Sign in to save words zhuīgēnsùyuán ㄓㄨㄟ ㄍㄣ ㄙㄨˋ ㄩㄢˊ to pursue sth back to its origins to trace back to the source to get to the bottom of sth Character by character 追(zhuī)chase 根(gēn)root 溯(sù)go upstream 源(yuán)root A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0