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  *本* | 本* | *本
(bound form) root; stem / (bound form) origin; source / (bound form) one's own; this / (bound form) this; the current (year etc) / (bound form) original / (bound form) inherent / originally; initially / capital; principal / classifier for books, periodicals, files etc
HSK 1
book / notebook / Japanese-style self-published comic (esp. an erotic one), aka "dōjinshi" / CL: / edition
HSK 1
textbook / CL:
HSK 1
notebook (stationery) (CL:) / (computing) laptop; notebook (abbr. for 筆記本電腦|笔记本电脑)
HSK 2
basic / fundamental / main / elementary
HSK 3
ability / skill
HSK 3
fundamental / basic / root / simply / absolutely (not) / (not) at all / CL: 個|个
HSK 3
skill / ability / capability / CL: 項|项, 個|个
HSK 3
original / originally / at first / it goes without saying / of course
HSK 3
basically / on the whole
HSK 3
undergraduate course / undergraduate (attributive)
HSK 4
(manufacturing, production etc) costs
HSK 5
capital (economics)
HSK 5
script; screenplay; scenario; libretto
HSK 5
I; me; myself / oneself; yourself; himself; herself; the person concerned
HSK 5
local / this locality
HSK 6
itself / in itself / per se
HSK 6
essence / nature / innate character / intrinsic quality
HSK 6
one's native country / native / local / metropolitan territory
HSK 6
the current period / this term (usually in finance)
HSK 6
specimen; sample / the root cause and symptoms of a disease
HSK 7-9
sample; specimen
HSK 7-9
instinct
HSK 7-9
originally / original
HSK 7-9
based on... / in conformance with.. / taking as one's main principle
HSK 7-9
natural instincts / nature / inherent quality
HSK 7-9
inherent qualities / natural qualities / distinctive character / true qualities
HSK 7-9
(to play) one's part / one's role / one's duty / (to stay within) one's bounds / dutiful / keeping to one's role
HSK 7-9
capital / (fig.) asset; advantage; the means (to do sth)
HSK 7-9
original idea / real intention / etymon
HSK 7-9
to make a loss
HSK 7-9
basic skills / fundamentals
HSK 7-9
capitalism
HSK 7-9
source material / original story
script; screenplay; scenario; libretto / (computing) script
Osama bin Laden (1957-2011), leader of Al Qaeda
Honshū, the main island of Japan
model (example worthy of being imitated) / template
version / edition / release
type specimen (used to define a species)
Japan
whole edition / whole performance (of Chinese opera)
this month / the current month
main part / torso / the thing in itself / noumenon (object of purely intellectual perception according to Kant)
a text (article, script, contract etc) / version of a text (copy, translation, abridged version etc) / (computing) text
Melbourne, Australia
reader / an instructional book
every family has its problems (idiom)
headquarters / base camp
Honda (Japanese name)
copy; duplicate; transcript / (gaming) dungeon; instance; private team mission
book format, similar to in-4°, in-8° etc (a 16-kai format 16開|16 is roughly A4) (abbr. to 開|开)
the subject under discussion / the point at issue
account book
capital / principal
original (of a document) / reserved copy (of a library book)
single volume edition / offprint
this text / article / the main body of a book
Hepburn (name)
Lisbon, capital of Portugal
translation (translated version of a text)
natural color
principal and interest (on a loan)
original meaning / literal sense
Das Kapital (1867) by Karl Marx 卡爾·馬克思|卡尔·马克思
loss / to sustain losses
one's job
book (chiefly used to refer to a plurality of books or books in general)
Benjamin (person name)
Miyamoto (Japanese surname)
(Buddhism) yidam (one's chosen meditational deity) / the principal object of worship on a Buddhist altar / (of a monk who has the ability to appear in multiple places at the same time) the honored one himself (contrasted with his alternate forms, 分身) / (fig.) (jocular) the genuine article / the real McCoy / the man himself / the woman herself / the original manifestation of sth (not a spin-off or a clone)
(economics) standard; benchmark (as in 金本位 "gold standard") / one's own department or unit / central reference point; fundamental frame of reference (used after a noun N, indicates an N-centered outlook, as in 學校本位|学校本位 "school-centered approach")
this newspaper
current / this year
herbaceous / original draft (of a manuscript etc)
printed book; printed copy
a member of the same clan / a distant relative with the same family name
handwritten copy
blueprint / source material on which later works (books, movies etc) are based
to repay capital
to break even
one's line / one's own profession
hard-earned capital
origin / source
capital stock / investment
copy
(idiom) in deadly earnest; deadpan
biographic sketch of an emperor
from beginning to end / in its entirety / in accord with fact / literal
lit. change to more severe (idiom); to become more intense (esp. of shortcoming) / to aggravate / to intensify
a book on Chinese (herbal) medicine / Chinese materia medica
Matsumoto (Japanese surname and place name)
home village / one's native place
the current dynasty
cashier's check / promissory note
block printed edition
Song and Yuan literary form based on vernacular folk stories
local currency / our own currency / abbr. for 本位貨幣|本位货币
capital / assets / savings / nest egg / (fig.) reputation / laurels (to rest upon) / old edition of a book / (tree) trunk

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