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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
original / originally / at first / it goes without saying / of course
HSK 3
skill / ability / capability / CL: 項|项, 個|个
HSK 3
undergraduate course / undergraduate (attributive)
HSK 4
I; me; myself / oneself; yourself; himself; herself; the person concerned
HSK 5
one's native country / native / local / metropolitan territory
HSK 6
essence / nature / innate character / intrinsic quality
HSK 6
local / this locality
HSK 6
itself / in itself / per se
HSK 6
the current period / this term (usually in finance)
HSK 6
instinct
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
inherent qualities / natural qualities / distinctive character / true qualities
HSK 7-9
original idea / real intention / etymon
HSK 7-9
capital / (fig.) asset; advantage; the means (to do sth)
HSK 7-9
natural instincts / nature / inherent quality
HSK 7-9
based on... / in conformance with.. / taking as one's main principle
HSK 7-9
one's job
people of this province / (in Taiwan) Han Chinese people other than those who moved to Taiwan from mainland China after 1945 and their descendants
Osama bin Laden (1957-2011), leader of Al Qaeda
a member of the same clan / a distant relative with the same family name
classic book / sutra
origin / source
actual sin (Christian notion, as opposed to original sin 原罪)
principal and interest (on a loan)
to localize / localization
main part / torso / the thing in itself / noumenon (object of purely intellectual perception according to Kant)
main island
this month / the current month
original meaning / literal sense
source material / original story
Honda (Japanese name)
P⁄E ratio (price-to-earnings ratio)
headquarters / head office
one's own country
decorous / respectable
(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)
notebook computer (diminutive) / laptop
capital / principal
cashier's check / promissory note
current / this year
this year / the current year
here / this place
(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")
native person (of a country)
original form of a Chinese character
one's line / one's own profession
natural color
this newspaper
Compendium of Medical Herbs 1596, compiled by Li Shizhen 李時珍|李时珍
home village / one's native place
principal and interest / capital and profit
(baseball) home base; home plate
localization / adaptation (to foreign environment)
this city / our city
original form
Bennett (surname)
Benz (name) / Karl Benz (1844-1929), motor car pioneer
today
the current dynasty
Benxi, prefecture-level city in Liaoning Province 遼寧省|辽宁省
original name; real name / (of foreigners) first name; given name
(idiom) true colors; true features; original appearance
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)
the whole course of an event from beginning to end / ins and outs / the fundamental and the incidental
(university education) major
Benxi Manchu Autonomous County in Benxi 本溪市, Liaoning
Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790), American writer, scientist, inventor, politician and diplomat
business in which a company has traditionally engaged (e.g. before diversifying) / original business / core business / (literary) agriculture
Benjamin (person name)
local currency / our own currency / abbr. for 本位貨幣|本位货币
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
umbra
year of one's birth sign, according to the cycle of 12 animals of the earthly branches 地支
Honinbo, major school of Go in Japan (1612-1940) / title held by the winner of the Honinbo Go tournament (1941-)
when the root is firm, the branches flourish
biographic sketch of an emperor
book worship / bookishness
Honshū, the main island of Japan
ancestral home; domicile of origin
the subject under discussion / the point at issue
basic salary
(of a small business) to have very little capital and very modest profits
id / the self
this week
local faction / pro-localization faction (in Taiwanese politics)
Shanghainese food
eigenvector (math.) / also written 特徵向量|特征向量
Pope Benedict XVI, original name Joseph Alois Ratzinger (1927–2022), pope 2005–2013
natives of one's own country
background
should have; ought to have
(Osama) bin Laden (1957-2011), leader of Al Qaeda
essentially / inherent
selfish departmentalism / departmental selfishness
monetary standard
(music notation) natural sign, ♮

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