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本
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Definitions
- 1. root
- 2. stem
- 3. origin
- 4. source
- 5. this
- 6. the current
- 7. original
- 8. inherent
- 9. originally
- 10. classifier for books, periodicals, files etc
Example Sentences
1 shown她大約擁有 2000 本 書。
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Words Containing 本
natives of one's own country
paid-up capital
a wooden word-by-word reading
Compendium of Medical Herbs 1596, compiled by Li Shizhen 李時珍|李时珍[lǐ shí zhēn]
by nature
id
marginal cost
capital
a photocopy
people-oriented
the Benedictines
NHK (Nihon Hōsō Kyōkai), Japanese national broadcasting company
capital market
principal and interest (on a loan)
every family has its problems (idiom)
Kumamoto prefecture, Kyūshū, Japan
this week
copy
to get one's money back (esp. gambling)
background investigation
Japanese devil (common term of abuse in wartime China and in subsequent writing)
copy (of a document)
rubbing of inscription
basic necessity
dentin
(Osama) bin Laden (1957-2011), leader of Al Qaeda
Nippon Telegraph and Telephone (NTT)
(bird species of China) Matsudaira's storm petrel (Oceanodroma matsudairae)
Japan Airlines (JAL)
to repay capital
low cost
manuscript (of a book etc)
grass
the first meridian
biographic sketch of an emperor
Yakuza (Japanese mafia)
(neologism) (derog.) Japanophile (esp. a Chinese admirer of WWII-era Japan)
to trace sth back to its origin
Melbourne (slang alternative for 墨爾本|墨尔本[mò ěr běn])
sunk cost (economics)
fundamentally complete
notebook
Happy Camp (PRC TV series)
original form
this city
manuscript copy of a book (before the printing press)
to recoup one's investment
exercise book
originally
Tang dynasty compendium of herbal medicine
Emperor of Japan
capitalism
Silver Standard (monetary standard)
opera libretto
basic law (constitutional document)
(bird species of China) Japanese leaf warbler (Phylloscopus xanthodryas)
standard
to have what it takes
(bird species of China) Japanese sparrowhawk (Accipiter gularis)
unabridged
abridged version
to go back to the source
original form of a Chinese character
P⁄E ratio (price-to-earnings ratio)
Shanghainese food
Japan Atomic Energy Research Institute
Benjamin (person name)
production costs
Euclid's Elements
here
basic word
this radio station
to hand in one's ration cards
fundamental
lit. change to more severe (idiom); to become more intense (esp. of shortcoming)
Hepburn (name)
type specimen (used to define a species)
spider beetle
(bird species of China) Japanese robin (Larvivora akahige)
university undergraduate course
script
a loss
Gibbons (name)
historic cost (accounting)
Honinbo, major school of Go in Japan (1612-1940)
small capital, huge profit (idiom); to put in a little and get a lot out
Honshū, the main island of Japan
(to play) one's part
headquarters
Japanese encephalitis
Japanese sword
home village
(music notation) natural sign, ♮
(bird species of China) Japanese wagtail (Motacilla grandis)
from beginning to end
total costs
classic book
man at birth is fundamentally good in nature (the first two lines of Three Character Classic 三字經|三字经[sān zì jīng])
(manufacturing, production etc) costs
today
(bird species of China) Japanese quail (Coturnix japonica)
fundamental principle
Bank of Japan
disposable chopsticks
A Record of Japan, by Huang Zunxian 黃遵憲|黄遵宪[huáng zūn xiàn], an extended analysis of Meiji Japan
background count
Das Kapital (1867) by Karl Marx 卡爾·馬克思|卡尔·马克思[kǎ ěr · mǎ kè sī]
localization
basic unit
copy
opportunity cost
this newspaper
edition (of a book) currently in circulation
textbook
Benxi Manchu autonomous county in Benxi 本溪, Liaoning
Benxi Manchu autonomous county in Benxi 本溪, Liaoning
to be in a position to (take on a challenge, etc)
text editor
fundamental theorem
a member of the same clan
woody plant
Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860), German post-Kantian philosopher
it is easier to change mountains and rivers than to alter one's character (idiom)
notebook computer (diminutive)
this text
capital (economics)
fundamental theorem of algebra
Graminae or Poaceae, the grass family
to sell at a loss
basic multilingual plane (BMP)
basic salary
Blackburn
Benxi prefecture-level city in Liaoning province 遼寧省|辽宁省[liáo níng shěng] in northeast China
Benxi prefecture-level city in Liaoning province 遼寧省|辽宁省[liáo níng shěng] in northeast China
handwritten copy
expurgated edition
(Buddhism) yidam (one's chosen meditational deity)
original name
Copenhagen or København, capital of Denmark
both principal and interest
return on equity (ROE)
laptop
see 本那比市[běn nà bǐ shì]
loss
holotype
It is hard to change one's essential nature (idiom). You can't change who you are.
Ligusticum levisticum (Chinese lovage root)
to take a relevant exam for a certificate (e.g. driving test, license etc)
hypertext markup language
Zhao Benshan (1958-), universally known PRC TV comedian
abridged version
actual sin (Christian notion, as opposed to original sin 原罪)
Bernhard Karlgren (1889-1978), distinguished Swedish linguist and sinologist
people of this province
main island
paid-in capital
translation (translated version of a text)
Shennong's Compendium of Materia Medica, a Han dynasty pharmacological compendium, 3 scrolls
John Bunyan (1628-1688), English puritan writer, author of Pilgrim's Progress 天路歷程|天路历程
this month
the Greenwich meridian
background radiation
capital requirement
basic skills
processing cost
background
to follow one's nose
rich text (computing)
basic
Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790), American writer, scientist, inventor, politician and diplomat
the great Nirvana sutra: every living thing has Buddha nature.
mercy as the guiding principle (idiom); the Buddhist teaching that nothing is valid except compassion
laptop
Nihonshoki or Chronicles of Japan (c. 720) book of mythology and history
crony capitalism
fundamental law
guestbook
year of one's birth sign, according to the cycle of 12 animals of the earthly branches 地支[dì zhī]
Dubonnet (name)
capital stock
local currency
anthology
compact edition (of a dictionary etc)
see 追本溯源[zhuī běn sù yuán]
cashier's check
to break even
exercise book for practicing Chinese character handwriting (each page being a grid of blank cells divided into quadrants, like the character 田)
block printed edition
decorous
(loanword) pence
(baseball) home base; home plate
book format, similar to in-4°, in-8° etc (a 16-kai format 16開|16开[shí liù kāi] is roughly A4)
one's line
original meaning
true colors
this city
under one's own name
picture book
hypertext transfer protocol
headquarters
bound volume
to spare no effort
base rate (e.g. interest rate set by central bank)
ability
version
pocket book
fundamental theorem of calculus
holotype
should have; ought to have
Hong Kong Basic Law (in effect since the resumption of Chinese sovereignty in 1997)
vine plant
to tackle a problem at its root; to effect a permanent solution (contrasted with 治標|治标[zhì biāo])
essentially
Japan
normal cost (accountancy)
selfish departmentalism
diary (book)
fundamental theorem of algebra (every polynomial has a complex root)
Japanese rice wine
in deadly earnest; deadpan
oriental river prawn (Macrobrachium nipponense), a species of freshwater shrimp, also called 青蝦|青虾[qīng xiā]
(derog.) Japanese person
LMI
I; me; myself
lit. the body is the revolution's capital
concise edition
specimen; sample
Japanese person or people
the whole course of an event from beginning to end
screenplay
to break even
subscribed capital (finance)
commercial version (of software)
Bunsen burner
Honinbo Shusaku (1829-1862), Japanese Go player
HASHIMOTO Ryūtarō (1937-2006), Japanese politician, prime minister 1996-1998
origin
(political party's) voter base
book worship
one's job
elementary particle (particle physics)
original
umbra
Kyōdō, Japanese news agency
revised edition (of a book)
detailed edition
(a return) equal to the capital
to win back one's money (gambling etc)
lit. to invert root and branch (idiom); fig. confusing cause and effect
ensure that you pay debts of gratitude (idiom)
printed book
native person (of a country)
eigenvalue (math.)
Song and Yuan literary form based on vernacular folk stories
spelling book
Osama bin Laden (1957-2011), leader of Al Qaeda
capital
text box (computing)
herbaceous plant
basically
when the root is firm, the branches flourish
local currency
the subject under discussion
undergraduate student
native language
Nikkei Shimbun, Japanese equivalent of Financial Times
hard-earned capital
single volume edition
sample; specimen
netbook
blueprint
eigenvector (math.)
current
script for opera (esp. in Yuan times)
original (of a document)
fundamental doctrine
constant capital
one's native country
pleasure from helping others
Big Ben
principal and interest
monetary standard
outflow of capital
to talk shop all the time (idiom)
historical version; a previous version (of an app, document etc)
basic concept
local faction
one's own country
(idiom) to lose everything one invested; to lose one's shirt
fundamental civil rights
account book
hypertext
residence certificate
local
natural color
murder mystery game (role-playing game)
home run (baseball)
whole edition
a treasured rare book
model (example worthy of being imitated)
Melbourne, Australia
paid-in capital
foreign capital
paperback (book)
good book
capitalist
Honda (Japanese name)
equity ratio
extant fragment (of book)
(math.) first fundamental form
Benz (name)
a text (article, script, contract etc)
capital reserve
to forget one's roots
small capital
Benedictus
to localize
to treat the symptoms but not the root cause
to make a loss
hypertext transfer protocol (HTTP)
Kumamoto city and prefecture in west Kyūshū 九州, Japan
business in which a company has traditionally engaged (e.g. before diversifying)
to recoup losses (in gambling)
Pope Benedict XVI, original name Joseph Alois Ratzinger (1927-), pope 2005-2013
Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada
hardwork and thriftiness are the foundations of service (idiom)
(finance) dollar cost averaging
to flaunt a skill
notebook (stationery)
inspection copy (of a textbook etc)
ontology
YAMAMOTO Isoroku (1884-1943), Japanese admiral
source material
main part
a book on Chinese (herbal) medicine
book
textbook
Japanology
telephone contact notebook; address book
(of a small business) to have very little capital and very modest profits
Silver Standard (monetary standard)
book
the current dynasty
Sea of Japan
(music) natural note
plain text (computing)
script for play, opera, movie etc
revised and enlarged edition
this year
to neglect the root and pursue the tip (idiom)
reader
itself
inherent qualities
Lisbon, capital of Portugal
(bird species of China) Japanese bush warbler (Cettia diphone)
vocabulary notebook