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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
ability / skill
HSK 3
skill / ability / capability / CL: 項|项, 個|个
HSK 3
original / originally / at first / it goes without saying / of course
HSK 3
undergraduate course / undergraduate (attributive)
HSK 4
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
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
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
Benxi, prefecture-level city in Liaoning Province 遼寧省|辽宁省
basic salary
source material / original story
(university education) major
Benxi Manchu Autonomous County in Benxi 本溪市, Liaoning
Honshū, the main island of Japan
this city / our city
Osama bin Laden (1957-2011), leader of Al Qaeda
main part / torso / the thing in itself / noumenon (object of purely intellectual perception according to Kant)
localization / adaptation (to foreign environment)
Honda (Japanese name)
the subject under discussion / the point at issue
capital / principal
this text / article / the main body of a book
natural color
principal and interest (on a loan)
umbra
original meaning / literal sense
one's job
Benjamin (person name)
(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
a member of the same clan / a distant relative with the same family name
the first meridian / the prime meridian
one's line / one's own profession
origin / source
a book on Chinese (herbal) medicine / Chinese materia medica
home village / one's native place
the current dynasty
biographic sketch of an emperor
cashier's check / promissory note
local currency / our own currency / abbr. for 本位貨幣|本位货币
one's own country
It is hard to change one's essential nature (idiom). You can't change who you are. / Can the leopard change his spots? (Jeremiah 13:23)
this month / the current month
business in which a company has traditionally engaged (e.g. before diversifying) / original business / core business / (literary) agriculture
this city / this town
notebook computer (diminutive) / laptop
home run (baseball)
original form
(loanword) pence / penny
today
(baseball) home base; home plate
(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) true colors; true features; original appearance
(of a small business) to have very little capital and very modest profits
when the root is firm, the branches flourish
Benz (name) / Karl Benz (1844-1929), motor car pioneer
original form of a Chinese character
P⁄E ratio (price-to-earnings ratio)
principal and interest / capital and profit
year of one's birth sign, according to the cycle of 12 animals of the earthly branches 地支
actual sin (Christian notion, as opposed to original sin 原罪)
Bennett (surname)
this year / the current year
(music notation) natural sign, ♮
id / the self
decorous / respectable
people of this province / (in Taiwan) Han Chinese people other than those who moved to Taiwan from mainland China after 1945 and their descendants
eigenvalue (math.) / also written 特徵值|特征值
this week
selfish departmentalism / departmental selfishness
natives of one's own country
Shanghainese food
by nature / fundamentally / inherently
local currency / our own currency / abbr. to 本幣|本币
to localize / localization
background
should have; ought to have
local faction / pro-localization faction (in Taiwanese politics)
Benedictus
book worship / bookishness
background investigation
eigenvector (math.) / also written 特徵向量|特征向量
undergraduate student
Pope Benedict XVI, original name Joseph Alois Ratzinger (1927–2022), pope 2005–2013
ancestral home; domicile of origin
monetary standard

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