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
- —本家本元original home; birthplace; originator
- —本船渡しfree on board (i.e. seller pays to have goods placed on a ship); FOB
- —民本主義politics of the people (democratic theory of Sakuzō Yoshino, 1878-1933)
- —本卦還りreaching age of 60; dotage; second childhood
- —本末転倒putting the cart before the horse; mistaking the means for the end; getting one's priorities backwards
- —資本注入capital injection
- —戸籍抄本official copy of part of family register
- —帰巣本能homing instinct
- —金本位制gold standard system
- —金融資本financial capital
- —独占資本monopolistic capital
- —投下資本invested capital
- —守り本尊guardian deity
- —見本組みspecimen page
- —資本取引capital transaction
- —一本勝負one-game match
- —敵本主義diversionary tactics; concealing one's true motives until the last moment
- —不変資本constant capital
- —民間資本private capital
- —産業資本industrial capital