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
- —本領を発揮to display one's real ability; to show one's real ability; to show one's stuff; to show oneself at one's best; to really shine; to come into one's own; to find one's feet (legs); to hit (strike) one's stride
- —資本家階級capitalist class
- —本来無一物all things are essentially nothingness; all things come from nothingness; originally, there was nothing; Zen reminder to free oneself from attachments
- —金本位制度gold standard system
- —本音を言うto speak one's mind; to be frank; to tell the truth
- —資本主勘定capital personal account; investor account; investor's account; stockholders equity
- —本気にするto take seriously; to believe in; to fall for
- —本題に入るto get to the main subject; to move on to the main topic; to get down to business
- —ハウツー本how-to (book); self-help book
- —登記簿謄本copy of a registration certificate; certified copy of register
- —大本営発表imperial headquarters announcement
- —本態性振戦essential tremor
- —新社会資本new social infrastructure
- —語彙制限本graded reader; limited-vocabulary reader
- —土地基本法Basic Act for Land
- —水産基本法Fisheries Basic Act
- —自己啓発本self-improvement book
- —本当にまあhow admirably; how wonderfully; how skillfully
- —本音と建前one's true feelings and one's official stance (which may be at odds); one's real motive and one's stated reason
- —資本自由化liberalization of capital transactions