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
- —絵入根本illustrated kabuki script
- —基本方針basic policy; fundamental policy; fundamental plan of action
- —副本部長deputy general manager; deputy director-general; assistant commissioner
- —生存本能survival instinct
- —母性本能maternal instinct
- —良き手本good example
- —千本鳥居rows of torii gates (e.g. at Kyoto's Fushimi Inari shrine); torii corridor
- —基本計画master plan; basic plan; general plan
- —撮影台本shooting script (film, television); continuity
- —資本勘定capital account
- —一本漬けpickle on a stick (usually a cucumber)
- —過少資本inadequate capital; undercapitalization
- —木本植物woody plant
- —対策本部countermeasures headquarters; task force; countermeasures office; emergency headquarters
- —抜本改革fundamental reform; dramatic overhaul
- —冒険資本venture capital
- —基本操作elementary operation; basic operation; fundamental procedure
- —本因坊戦Hon'inbō Tournament (annual professional go competition); Honinbo Tournament
- —一本占地livid pinkgill (species of poisonous mushroom, Entoloma sinuatum)
- —千本占地Lyophyllum fumosum (species of mushroom)