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
- 合订本(合訂本) bound volume; one-volume edition
- 本草纲目(本草綱目) Compendium of Medical Herbs
- 账本(賬本) account book
- 生产成本(生產成本) production costs
- 沉没成本(沉沒成本) sunk cost
- 正型标本(正型標本) holotype
- 基本上 basically; on the whole
- 日本海 Sea of Japan
- 基本定理 fundamental theorem
- 本因坊 Honinbo, major school of Go in Japan
- 基本分析 fundamental analysis
- 扳本儿(扳本兒) to recoup losses (in gambling)
- 木本植物 a woody plant
- 血本无归(血本無歸) to lose everything one invested; to lose one's shirt
- 日本叉尾海燕 Matsudaira's storm petrel (Oceanodroma matsudairae)
- 本应(本應) should have; ought to have
- 本乡(本鄉) home village; one's native place
- 副本 duplicate; copy; transcript
- 精校本 corrected edition
- 基本概念 basic concept
- 足本 unabridged edition; complete book
- 机会成本(機會成本) opportunity cost
- 基本情绪(基本情緒) basic emotion
- 绘本(繪本) picture book
- 本固枝荣(本固枝榮) when the root is firm, the branches flourish
- 大本 core ; a large book
- 赵本山(趙本山) Zhao Benshan
- 本论(本論) this book; main part of this book
- 本末 the trunk of and its branches ; the fundamental and the particulars ; the whole course of an event from beginning to end ; in succession
- 藤本 Fujimoto (Japanese surname)
- 本行 one's line; one's own profession
- 本科生 undergraduate student
- 大学本科(大學本科) university undergraduate course
- 本义(本義) original meaning; literal sense
- 标本虫(標本蟲) spider beetle
- 舍本逐末(捨本逐末) to neglect the root and pursue the tip; to neglect fundamentals and concentrate on details
- 杜本内(杜本內) Dubonnet (name) / Dubonnet (red vermouth aperitif wine)
- 本征向量(本徵向量) eigenvector
- 纪事本末体(紀事本末體) a record of a subject from start to end
- 刻本 a block printed edition
- 本士 pence; penny
Also contained in
墨巴本 、 文本框 、 叔本华 、 基本多文种平面 、 桥本龙太郎 、 墨尔本 、 梵本 、 吕本中 、 范本 、 大日本帝国
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: 643
- 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