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
- —基本単位base unit (metre, etc.); standard unit
- —商業資本trading capital
- —可変資本variable capital
- —標本抽出sampling
- —根本主義fundamentalism
- —銀本位制silver standard system
- —造本技術art of bookbinding (bookmaking)
- —本文批評textual criticism
- —本位記号natural (sign)
- —本位貨幣standard money; standard coin; legal tender
- —本決まりdefinite decision; final decision
- —本格小説serious novel; genuinely attempted novel
- —農本主義principles underpinning an agriculturally based economy
- —複本位制bimetallism
- —流通資本circulating capital
- —流動資本floating capital
- —一本取るto score an ippon; to score a full point (in judo, kendo, etc.); to one-up (someone); to defeat (in an argument); to score (against someone)
- —資本無しwithout capital
- —選対本部election headquarters
- —当の本人the person himself