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
- —基本名primitive name
- —本体部body part
- —本切羽functioning cuff buttons on a jacket (i.e. those that can be buttoned and unbuttoned); surgeon's cuffs
- —本開きfunctioning cuff buttons on a jacket (i.e. those that can be buttoned and unbuttoned); surgeon's cuffs
- —基本権fundamental right; fundamental human right
- —お手本model; (good) example; exemplar; paragon
- —本発明present invention
- —本論文this thesis; this article; the article under consideration
- —一本眉unibrow; monobrow
- —本能的instinctive; instinctual
- —談義本dangibon; type of humorous book popular in the Edo period (from the 1750s)
- —洋装本book bound in Western style
- —和装本book bound in the traditional Japanese style
- —草稿本rough draft of a book; draft-manuscript book; dummy comic book
- —本占地Lyophyllum shimeji (species of edible mushroom)
- —本省人person from one's own province (in China); person whose ancestors lived in Taiwan before the Kuomintang-related immigration wave
- —基本形fundamental form; basic form; basic pattern; basic model; basic type; prototype
- —力本説dynamism
- —四本足four-legged; four legs
- —稽古本practice book used in jōruri and nagauta