穷根探源 qiónggēntànyuán to get to the bottom of things Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents 穷根 窮根 qiónggēn to get to the bottom of things To investigate or probe deeply into the origin of a matter; bound form typically occurring in 穷根究底 qiónggēnjiūdǐ or 穷根探源 qiónggēntànyuán探源 tànyuán to find the source to exhaustively investigate in order to find the root cause of something; to trace something back to its origin