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
- —洒落本sharebon; late Edo-period novelette about life in the red-light districts
- —略本暦abbreviated Japanese traditional calendar (presented in a smaller, easy-to-use format)
- —党本部party headquarters
- —富本銭fuhonsen; Japan's first coinage dating to 683 CE, but perhaps never in circulation
- —一本指finger; one's finger
- —講談本book of oral narratives; story book
- —ビニ本pornographic magazine or book sold wrapped in plastic
- —手本紙paper used for copybooks
- —無点本Chinese classic without reading aids; book without reading aids
- —本多髷type of male haircut (Edo period)
- —笑い本shunga book; pornographic book
- —一本歯tall geta with a single tooth
- —大資本large amount of capital; large-cap; big-cap
- —暴露本tell-all book; revealing book; kiss-and-tell book; scandalous book
- —夏本番midsummer; height of summer
- —一本糞long stool (that one is able to press out entirely in one go without it getting cut off); (long) sausage-shaped poop; grogan
- —本狂言discrete kyogen (performed between two noh plays)
- —本醸造pure brew (e.g. sake, soy sauce)
- —本好きbook lover; lover of books; bibliophilism; love of books
- —資本主investor; stockholder