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
- —一本化unification; centralization; integration; drawing things together; working out a common policy; consolidation
- —五本指five-toed (socks); top 5 (counting with fingers)
- —基本金fund; endowment
- —本動詞main verb
- —本波布Okinawan habu (Trimeresurus flavoviridis)
- —金本位money-centered way (of thinking)
- —色見本color sample (for paint, etc.) (colour); color chart (for choosing web colors, etc.)
- —根本悪radical evil (in Kantianism)
- —本有的innate
- —基本数monoploid number
- —草本層herbaceous layer
- —本諸子willow gudgeon (species of fish, Gnathopogon caerulescens)
- —標本化sampling (e.g. in signal processing)
- —真名本book written entirely in kanji
- —千本槍Leibnitz daisy (Leibnitzia anandria)
- —本地身(dharma-body of) Vairocana
- —参考本reference book
- —基本外non-basic
- —基本値basic value
- —基本文basic statement