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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
skill / ability / capability / CL: 項|项, 個|个
HSK 3
ability / skill
HSK 3
book / notebook / Japanese-style self-published comic (esp. an erotic one), aka "dōjinshi" / CL: / edition
HSK 1
original / originally / at first / it goes without saying / of course
HSK 3
I; me; myself / oneself; yourself; himself; herself; the person concerned
HSK 5
one's native country / native / local / metropolitan territory
HSK 6
local / this locality
HSK 6
undergraduate course / undergraduate (attributive)
HSK 4
natural instincts / nature / inherent quality
HSK 7-9
essence / nature / innate character / intrinsic quality
HSK 6
the current period / this term (usually in finance)
HSK 6
(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
based on... / in conformance with.. / taking as one's main principle
HSK 7-9
(university education) major
original idea / real intention / etymon
HSK 7-9
main island
the subject under discussion / the point at issue
this newspaper
inherent qualities / natural qualities / distinctive character / true qualities
HSK 7-9
this month / the current month
itself / in itself / per se
HSK 6
source material / original story
undergraduate student
this text / article / the main body of a book
essentially / inherent
this week
this city / our city
by nature / fundamentally / inherently
current / this year
original form
localization / adaptation (to foreign environment)
Honda (Japanese name)
one's job
capital / principal
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
(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")
the whole course of an event from beginning to end / ins and outs / the fundamental and the incidental
capital / (fig.) asset; advantage; the means (to do sth)
HSK 7-9
a member of the same clan / a distant relative with the same family name
this radio station
natural color
Compendium of Medical Herbs 1596, compiled by Li Shizhen 李時珍|李时珍
here / this place
this year / the current year
id / the self
cashier's check / promissory note
(Osama) bin Laden (1957-2011), leader of Al Qaeda
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)
background
(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)
local currency / our own currency / abbr. for 本位貨幣|本位货币
(music notation) natural sign, ♮
Benjamin (person name)
decorous / respectable
to localize / localization
original form of a Chinese character
(idiom) true colors; true features; original appearance
natives of one's own country
eigenvalue (math.) / also written 特徵值|特征值
original name; real name / (of foreigners) first name; given name
Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada
monetary standard
a book on Chinese (herbal) medicine / Chinese materia medica
biographic sketch of an emperor
local currency / our own currency / abbr. to 本幣|本币
the first meridian / the prime meridian
business in which a company has traditionally engaged (e.g. before diversifying) / original business / core business / (literary) agriculture
notebook computer (diminutive) / laptop
selfish departmentalism / departmental selfishness
main part / torso / the thing in itself / noumenon (object of purely intellectual perception according to Kant)
background investigation
instinct
HSK 7-9
principal and interest / capital and profit
Benedictus
(baseball) home base; home plate
classic book / sutra
original meaning / literal sense
headquarters / head office
one's line / one's own profession
one's own country
today
Pope Benedict XVI, original name Joseph Alois Ratzinger (1927–2022), pope 2005–2013
ontology
Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790), American writer, scientist, inventor, politician and diplomat
year of one's birth sign, according to the cycle of 12 animals of the earthly branches 地支
native person (of a country)
should have; ought to have
principal and interest (on a loan)
local faction / pro-localization faction (in Taiwanese politics)
LMI / local management interface (telecommunications)
background radiation
umbra
(music) natural note
Osama bin Laden (1957-2011), leader of Al Qaeda
(loanword) pence / penny
background count
Benxi Manchu Autonomous County in Benxi 本溪市, Liaoning

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