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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
essence / nature / innate character / intrinsic quality
HSK 6
itself / in itself / per se
HSK 6
one's native country / native / local / metropolitan territory
HSK 6
the current period / this term (usually in finance)
HSK 6
instinct
HSK 7-9
specimen; sample / the root cause and symptoms of a disease
HSK 7-9
sample; specimen
HSK 7-9
originally / original
HSK 7-9
based on... / in conformance with.. / taking as one's main principle
HSK 7-9
inherent qualities / natural qualities / distinctive character / true qualities
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
natural instincts / nature / inherent quality
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
basic skills / fundamentals
HSK 7-9
capitalism
HSK 7-9
Benxi, prefecture-level city in Liaoning Province 遼寧省|辽宁省
Lisbon, capital of Portugal
exercise book for practicing Chinese character handwriting (each page being a grid of blank cells divided into quadrants, like the character )
exercise book / workbook / CL:
fundamental theorem
basic salary
source material / original story
to forget one's roots
script; screenplay; scenario; libretto / (computing) script
people-oriented
(university education) major
Benxi Manchu Autonomous County in Benxi 本溪市, Liaoning
Honshū, the main island of Japan
pleasure from helping others
this city / our city
Melbourne, Australia
itself
version / edition / release
type specimen (used to define a species)
Japan
model (example worthy of being imitated) / template
to go back to the source
gold standard (monetary system)
Osama bin Laden (1957-2011), leader of Al Qaeda
elementary particle (particle physics)
(bird species of China) warbling white-eye (Zosterops japonicus)
basic word
account book
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
reader / an instructional book
every family has its problems (idiom)
whole edition / whole performance (of Chinese opera)
inspection copy (of a textbook etc) / trial edition
localization / adaptation (to foreign environment)
silver standard (monetary system)
headquarters / base camp
Honda (Japanese name)
copy; duplicate; transcript / (gaming) dungeon; instance; private team mission
copy (of a document) / book with model calligraphy for copying
the subject under discussion / the point at issue
processing cost
capital / principal
single volume edition / offprint
this text / article / the main body of a book
a wooden word-by-word reading
translation (translated version of a text)
natural color
principal and interest (on a loan)
to have what it takes / (coll.) (often followed by ) (used to challenge sb) if you're so clever, ..., if she's so tough, ... etc / Example: 有本事就打我 Hit me if you dare!
umbra
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)
this newspaper
current / this year
native language / mother tongue
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

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