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
- —官本official publication; government publication; book belonging to a government office
- —本症this symptom
- —孤本only extant copy; only existing copy
- —梵本book in Sanskrit characters (e.g. scripture); book from India
- —本寺head temple; this temple
- —本坊head temple (of a branch temple); head priest's temple quarters
- —本所main office; this office
- —本金pure gold; capital stock; liquid gold (used for applying gold to ceramics, etc.)
- —顔本Facebook
- —紙本work on paper; text, image or calligraphy on paper
- —新本new book; unused book; newly-published book
- —伝本existing manuscript; extant copy; manuscript handed down from the past
- —本にindeed; really; truly; very much
- —本市this city
- —本法this law; this act; fundamental laws; core laws
- —本譜staff notation (as opposed to numbered notation); this record (of a game of go, shogi, etc.)
- —本園this kindergarten; this nursery; this garden; this park; this zoo
- —本免full licence
- —裸本(used) book without the original cover (or box)
- —床本yukahon; books with large characters placed on the floor to be read from by the narrator in jōruri and bunraku