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寻根
xún​gēn

to seek one's roots

Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents
寻根 尋根 xún//gēn
to seek one's roots
to seek one's roots, specifically looking for ancestral origins or the place where one's family began
to get to the bottom of things
to investigate the source or root cause of a matter

Frequency

Movie subtitles
0.330 per million appears in 0% of films
Written text
1.04 per million

Sources

Frequency data
SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)