本
HSK 1freq #222
Meanings
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- 1.(bound form) root; stem
- 2.(bound form) origin; source
- 3.(bound form) one's own; this
- 4.(bound form) this; the current (year etc)
- 5.(bound form) original
- 6.(bound form) inherent
- 7.originally; initially
- 8.capital; principal
- 9.classifier for books, periodicals, files etc
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Wiktionary
- 1.root; stem
- 2.source; origin; root
- 3.foundation; basis
- 4.edition; version; copy
- 5.originally; initially
- 6.current; present
- 7.this; here; this very
- 8.capital (money used in investment)
- 9.Classifier for books, periodicals, files. ⇒ all nouns using this classifier
- 10.volume
- 11.Used in certain name transliterations.
- 12.a transliteration of the English male given name Ben
- 13.a transliteration of the Arabic patronymic بِن (bin), bin
- 14.a transliteration of the Hebrew patronymic בן, Ben
- 15.ancestral seat of a descent group
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Etymology
Ideogram (指事): a tree (木 (mù)) with its bottom highlighted with an extra stroke, accentuating the roots; contrast 末, 朱. From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *purl (“root; stump; tree”) (STEDT, under PTB *(b/p)ul). Cognate with Mizo bul (“cause; beginning; root; stump”), Jingpho phun (“tree; bush; stalk; wood”), Garo bol (“tree”).
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Stroke order
Components
Components from cjk-decomp · MIT
Example sentences
我本应婉拒。
I should've declined.
那本書很舊。
That book is very old.
給我這本書。
Give me the book.
我有本字典。
I have a dictionary.
這本書是你的。
This book is yours.
這本書是新的。
This book is new.
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