Kanji1 / 5
本 kanji
book, present, main, origin, true, real, counter for long cylindrical things
- JLPT level
- N5 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N5 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 5
- School grade
- Grade 1 (elementary school)
On readings
ホン
Kun readings
もと
Variant forms
夲Words with 本
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —本真truth; reality
- —本葉true leaf; foliage leaf
- —五本five (long cylindrical things)
- —七本seven (long cylindrical things)
- —二本two (long cylindrical things)
- —本状this document; this letter; this writing
- —本編original story (as opposed to a sequel, spin-off, etc.); main story; main part(s) of a story; this volume; the movie (as opposed to the trailers; at a movie theater); feature film (main item in a cinema program); movie based on a TV series; movie version of a TV series
- —本会formal meeting (committee, etc.); session; this (the aforementioned, our) association (society, organisation)
- —本艦this (battle)ship; aforementioned ship
- —本歌original verse poem
- —本学this university; this educational establishment
- —本月this month
- —本鈴bell signalling that work, class, etc. has formally begun
- —本有state (or period) of life
- —本宮main shrine
- —暦本books related to the calendar; the calendar; the almanac
- —抜本eradication; drastic
- —抜本excerpt; selection
- —本鯖chub mackerel (Scomber japonicus)
- —本革real leather