追溯
zhuī​sù HSK7

to trace back

追溯 zhuī​sù
to trace back verb
to trace something back to its origins or source; to date from

你的问题可以追溯到一个坏习惯。

nǐ de wèn​tí kě​yǐ zhuī​sù dào yī​ge huài xí​guàn.

Your problem can be traced back to a bad habit.

这个传统可以追溯到18世纪。

zhè​ge chuán​tǒng kě​yǐ zhuī​sù dào18 shì​jì.

This tradition dates back to the 18th century.

to go upstream
to go upstream against the current towards the source of a river

Frequency
Movie subtitles
3.55 per million appears in 2% of films
Written text
4.77 per million

Details
HSK 3.0
Level 7

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Sources
Frequency data
SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)