What does it mean in Chinese?

What does 根本 mean?

根本 gēnběn

fundamental; basic; root

It can also mean

  • (used with negatives) at all; simply (as in 根本不知道)

Its characters

  1. 根 gēn root
  2. 本 běn root

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