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
- —防衛本能protective instinct; defensive instinct
- —自然資本natural capital
- —両本位制bimetallism
- —ゾッキ本remaindered books; remainders
- —資本資産capital assets
- —基本行列elementary matrix
- —本人訴訟lawsuit undertaken without legal representation; pro se lawsuit
- —限度見本boundary sample; limit sample; minimum acceptance sample
- —根本分裂fundamental schism (between the early Sthaviravāda and Mahāsāṃghika Buddhist schools)
- —商品見本trade sample; product sample
- —中国本土mainland China; China proper
- —基本財産fundamental property; principal; endowment; permanent property
- —基本のきthe absolute basics (esp. in educational contexts); most basic of basics; most fundamental thing
- —基本賃金basic wage; regular wage; wages before subtractions or additions
- —保守本流conservative mainstream (in Japan assoc. with LDP faction of Shigeru Yoshida)
- —本土方言mainland dialects (of Japanese, as opposed to the Ryukyu languages)
- —日本本土Japan proper (sometimes excluding the Ryukyu islands and other remote islands); mainland Japan
- —手本引きtehonbiki (type of card game associated with gambling)
- —禁帯出本book that cannot be taken out (of a library, etc.); restricted book; reference-only book
- —本歌取りadaptation of a famous poem