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
- —本作this piece; this work
- —本有innateness; innate feature (or character, etc.)
- —本目type of flat knot used in nets
- —経本sutra book
- —本経main sutra (of a lecture)
- —本地true form of a buddha; land of origin
- —本曲composition written for solo shakuhachi, kokyū, koto, etc.; this composition; this piece (of music); this song; this tune
- —本枯high grade katsuobushi (with mold)
- —根本kabuki script; illustrated kabuki script
- —本田rice paddy
- —本伝primary biography; standard biography
- —本間measure of length corresponding to 6 shaku (approx. 1.82 meters)
- —本権property right to an estate; title
- —本天silk velvet
- —本図this drawing; this chart; this diagram
- —本厄critical year in one's life; inauspicious year
- —零本fragmentary remains of a large set of writings; the odd volume; a few pages
- —本祭main festival; main day of a festival
- —本門main gate; front gate; latter half of the Lotus Sutra, which describes the nature of the Buddha
- —ご本book