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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
basic / fundamental / main / elementary
HSK 3
basically / on the whole
HSK 3
ability / skill
HSK 3
(manufacturing, production etc) costs
HSK 5
textbook / CL:
HSK 1
original / originally / at first / it goes without saying / of course
HSK 3
book / notebook / Japanese-style self-published comic (esp. an erotic one), aka "dōjinshi" / CL: / edition
HSK 1
skill / ability / capability / CL: 項|项, 個|个
HSK 3
I; me; myself / oneself; yourself; himself; herself; the person concerned
HSK 5
fundamental / basic / root / simply / absolutely (not) / (not) at all / CL: 個|个
HSK 3
one's native country / native / local / metropolitan territory
HSK 6
basics; essentials; fundamentals / (finance) fundamentals
notebook (stationery) (CL:) / (computing) laptop; notebook (abbr. for 筆記本電腦|笔记本电脑)
HSK 2
originally / original
HSK 7-9
essence / nature / innate character / intrinsic quality
HSK 6
local / this locality
HSK 6
script; screenplay; scenario; libretto
HSK 5
undergraduate course / undergraduate (attributive)
HSK 4
capital (economics)
HSK 5
natural instincts / nature / inherent quality
HSK 7-9
the current period / this term (usually in finance)
HSK 6
basic skills / fundamentals
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
fundamental law / body of basic laws
basic word
(university education) major
original idea / real intention / etymon
HSK 7-9
Kumamoto prefecture, Kyūshū, Japan
to break even / to get one's money's worth
this radio station
to spare no effort / to devote all one's energies
(Tw) Mbabane, administrative capital of Eswatini
man at birth is fundamentally good in nature (the first two lines of Three Character Classic 三字經|三字经)
capitalism
HSK 7-9
Happy Camp (PRC TV series)
inherent qualities / natural qualities / distinctive character / true qualities
HSK 7-9
Japanese person or people
the subject under discussion / the point at issue
this month / the current month
itself / in itself / per se
HSK 6
script; screenplay; scenario; libretto / (computing) script
Japan
specimen; sample / the root cause and symptoms of a disease
HSK 7-9
source material / original story
undergraduate student
to forget one's roots
the Four Cardinal Principles enunciated by Deng Xiaoping 鄧小平|邓小平 in 1979: to uphold the socialist road, the dictatorship of the proletariat, the leadership of the CCP, and Maoism and Marxism-Leninism
this text / article / the main body of a book
basic concept
a photocopy
this week
sample; specimen
HSK 7-9
fundamental doctrine / guiding principle / raison d'être
(idiom) in deadly earnest; deadpan
this city / our city
basic law (constitutional document)
Big Ben
based on... / in conformance with.. / taking as one's main principle
HSK 7-9
by nature / fundamentally / inherently
Shennong's Compendium of Materia Medica, a Han dynasty pharmacological compendium, 3 scrolls
mercy as the guiding principle (idiom); the Buddhist teaching that nothing is valid except compassion
original form
small capital / on a shoestring
itself
localization / adaptation (to foreign environment)
revised edition (of a book)
whole edition / whole performance (of Chinese opera)
Das Kapital (1867) by Karl Marx 卡爾·馬克思|卡尔·马克思
Honda (Japanese name)
to recoup one's investment
fundamental theorem
capital / principal
people-oriented
capitalist
every family has its problems (idiom)
Sakamoto (Japanese surname)
Japan Airlines (JAL)
should have; ought to have
lit. to invert root and branch (idiom); fig. confusing cause and effect / to stress the incidental over the fundamental / to put the cart before the horse
to tackle a problem at its root; to effect a permanent solution (contrasted with 治標|治标)
to make a loss
HSK 7-9
(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")
(idiom) to lose everything one invested; to lose one's shirt
Yakuza (Japanese mafia)
book (chiefly used to refer to a plurality of books or books in general)
the whole course of an event from beginning to end / ins and outs / the fundamental and the incidental
text editor
NHK (Nihon Hōsō Kyōkai), Japanese national broadcasting company
Japanese rice wine / sake
capital requirement
commercial version (of software)
a member of the same clan / a distant relative with the same family name
natural color
translation (translated version of a text)
Hong Kong Basic Law (in effect since the resumption of Chinese sovereignty in 1997)
this year / the current year
id / the self
cashier's check / promissory note
elementary particle (particle physics)

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