本 běn
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běn
measure word
measure word for books
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Quantity
Notes: (CCD 2 '本' 5; FE '本' 4; Guoyu '本' n 7; HSK 268 '本' 1) -
běn
pronoun
this (city, week, etc)
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Function Words
Notes: Also classified as a determiner (CCD '本' 8; FE '本' 6; GHDC '本' 9; HSK 269 '本' 2). -
běn
adverb
originally; formerly
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: In the sense of 本来 (CCD '本' 6; FE '本' 3; GHDC '本' 6; HSK 267 '本' 3; Guoyu '本' adv; Kroll 2015 '本' 3a, p. 14) -
běn
verb
to be one's own
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: (CCD '本' 7; FE '本' 6; GHDC '本' 4; HSK 269 '本' 1; Kroll 2015 '本' 4, p. 14) -
běn
noun
origin; source; root; foundation; basis
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: As in 本原 (CCD '本' 3; FE '本' 2; GHDC '本' 2; Guoyu '本' n 2; Kroll 2015 '本' 3, p. 14) -
běn
noun
the roots of a plant
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: In the sense of 草木 (CCD '本' 1; FE '本' 1; GHDC '本' 1; Guoyu '本' n 1; Kroll 2015 '本' 2, p. 14) -
běn
pronoun
self
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: In the sense of 自己 (Guoyu '本' pronoun) -
běn
measure word
measure word for flowering plants
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Quantity
Notes: (CCD '本' 2) -
běn
noun
capital
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: In the sense of 本金 (CCD '本' 4; GHDC '本' 7; HSK 268 '本' 2; Guoyu '本' n 3; Kroll 2015 '本' 6, p. 14) -
běn
adjective
main; central; primary
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: In the sense of 主要的 (CCD '本' 5; Guoyu '本' adj 1) -
běn
verb
according to
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: (CCD '本' 9; GHDC '本' 10; Guoyu '本' v) -
běn
noun
a version; an edition
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: In the sense of 版本 (CCD 2 '本' 2; GHDC '本' 12; Kroll 2015 '本' 5, p. 14) -
běn
noun
a memorial [presented to the emperor]
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: In the sense of 奏本 (CCD 2 '本' 2; GHDC '本' 14; Guoyu '本' n 6) -
běn
noun
a book
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: In the sense of 书籍 (CCD 2 '本' 1; GHDC '本' 11; Guoyu '本' n 4; HSK 268 '本' 1) -
běn
noun
trunk of a tree
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: (Kroll 2015 '本' 1, p. 14) -
běn
verb
to investigate the root of
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: (Kroll 2015 '本' 2a, p. 14) -
běn
noun
a manuscript for a play
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: (Guoyu '本' n 5) -
běn
proper noun
Ben
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Names , Concept: Surname 姓氏
Notes: (Guoyu '本' n 8)
Contained in
- 全本 whole edition; whole performance (of Chinese opera)
- 归本(歸本) return capital ; return to the source
- 残本(殘本) extant fragment (of book)
- 本体论(本體論) ontology
- 宫本(宮本) Miyamoto (Japanese surname)
- 本乡(本鄉) home village; one's native place
- 基本原则(基本原則) fundamental doctrine; guiding principle; raison d'être
- 本地 local
- 本那比市 Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada
- 外国资本(外國資本) foreign capital
- 影本 a photographic edition ; an exact handwritten copy
- 复本(複本) copy
- 本位制 monetary standard
- 治本 to take radical measures; to get at the root
- 为仁之本(為仁之本) the source of benevolent actions
- 正模标本(正模標本) holotype
- 凭本能做事(憑本能做事) to follow one's nose
- 对本(對本) (a return) equal to the capital; 100 percent profit
- 治标不治本(治標不治本) to treat the symptoms but not the root cause
- 日本天皇 Emperor of Japan
- 本本分分 decorous; respectable
- 本初子午线(本初子午線) the first meridian; the prime meridian
- 一本正经(一本正經) deadly serious
- 绘本(繪本) picture book
- 本帮菜(本幫菜) Shanghainese food
- 小本 small capital; on a shoestring
- 缩印本(縮印本) compact edition (of a dictionary etc)
- 根本 fundamental; basic ; a foundation; a basis ; root ; thoroughly ; capital
- 本届(本屆) current; this year
- 缩编本(縮編本) abridged edition
- 本钱(本錢) capital ; principal [deposit] ; expenses; investment
- 日本沼虾(日本沼蝦) oriental river prawn (Macrobrachium nipponense)
- 板本 a writing tablet ; edition
- 本生 those who gave me life
- 香港基本法 Hong Kong Basic Law
- 单行本(單行本) a monograph; single volume edition; offprint
- 祕本 a valuable rare book ; a book that is valuable to its owner
- 本题(本題) the subject under discussion; the point at issue
- 本因坊 Honinbo, major school of Go in Japan
Also contained in
日本后纪 、 日本银行 、 本业 、 文本检索 、 日本共同社 、 京本通俗小说 、 约翰·本仁 、 商业版本 、 本事诗 、 本溪市 、 安全超文本传输协议 、 本本
Word is mentioned most frequently in
Truncated for common words
- 卷十八 Scroll 18 Wenxuan 文選 — count: 713
- 卷三 秦一 Chapter 3: Qin I Stratagems of the Warring States 戰國策 — count: 644
- 卷五 Scroll 5 Wenxuan 文選 — count: 608
- 卷十六 Scroll 16 Wenxuan 文選 — count: 528
- 卷六 Scroll 6 Wenxuan 文選 — count: 498
- 卷八 齊一 Chapter 8: Qi I Stratagems of the Warring States 戰國策 — count: 463
- 卷五 秦三 Chapter 5: Qin III Stratagems of the Warring States 戰國策 — count: 446
- 卷十七 Scroll 17 Wenxuan 文選 — count: 439
- 卷六 秦四 Chapter 6: Qin IV Stratagems of the Warring States 戰國策 — count: 438
- 卷二十一 趙四 Chapter 21: Zhao IV Stratagems of the Warring States 戰國策 — count: 405