| 本位主义 | [ běn weì zhǔ yì ] selfish departmentalism, departmental selfishness |
| 本位号 | [ běn weì haò ] (music notation) natural sign, ♮ |
| 本位货币 | [ běn weì huò bì ] local currency, our own currency, abbr. to 本幣|本币 |
| 本来 | [ běn laí ] original, originally, at first, it goes without saying, of course |
| 本来面目 | [ běn laí miàn mù ] true colors, true features |
| 本杰明 | [ běn jié míng ] Benjamin (person name) |
| 本杰明b7富兰克林 | [ běn jié míng fù lán kè lín ] Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790), American writer, scientist, inventor, politician and diplomat |
| 本内特 | [ běn neì tè ] Bennett (surname) |
| 本初子午线 | [ běn chū zǐ wǔ xiàn ] the first meridian, the prime meridian |
| 本固枝荣 | [ běn gù zhī róng ] when the root is firm, the branches flourish |
| 本国 | [ běn guó ] one's own country |
| 本国人 | [ běn guó rén ] natives of one's own country |
| 本报 | [ běn baò ] this newspaper |
| 本垒 | [ běn leǐ ] home base, home plate (in baseball) |
| 本垒打 | [ běn leǐ dǎ ] home run (baseball) |
| 本届 | [ běn jiè ] current, this year |
| 本岛 | [ běn daǒ ] main island |
| 本币 | [ běn bì ] local currency, our own currency, abbr. for 本位貨幣|本位货币 |
| 本帮菜 | [ běn bāng caì ] Shanghainese food |
| 本底计数 | [ běn dǐ jì shù ] background count |
| 本底调查 | [ běn dǐ chá ] background investigation |
| 本底辐射 | [ běn dǐ fú shè ] background radiation |
| 本征值 | [ běn zhēng zhí ] eigenvalue (math.), also written 特徵值|特征值 |
| 本征向量 | [ běn zhēng xiàng liàng ] eigenvector (math.), also written 特徵向量|特征向量 |
| 本性难移 | [ běn xìng nán yí ] 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) |
| 本应 | [ běn yīng ] should have, ought to have |
| 本族语 | [ běn zú yǔ ] native language, mother tongue |
| 本本主义 | [ běn běn zhǔ yì ] book worship, bookishness |
| 本业 | [ běn yè ] business in which a company has traditionally engaged (e.g. before diversifying), original business, core business, (literary) agriculture |
| 本溪满族自治县 | [ běn xī mǎn zú zì zhì xiàn ] Benxi Manchu autonomous county in Benxi 本溪, Liaoning |
| 本溪县 | [ běn xī xiàn ] Benxi Manchu autonomous county in Benxi 本溪, Liaoning |
| 本生灯 | [ běn shēng dēng ] Bunsen burner |
| 本笃十六世 | [ běn dǔ shí liù shì ] Pope Benedict XVI, original name Joseph Alois Ratzinger (1927-), pope 2005-2013 |
| 本笃会 | [ běn dǔ huì ] the Benedictines |
| 本纪 | [ běn jì ] biographic sketch of an emperor |
| 本经 | [ běn jīng ] classic book, sutra |
| 本义 | [ běn yì ] original meaning, literal sense |
| 本职 | [ běn zhí ] one's job |
| 本台 | [ běn taí ] this radio station |
| 本草纲目 | [ běn caǒ gāng mù ] Compendium of Medical Herbs 1596, compiled by Li Shizhen 李時珍|李时珍[Li3 Shi2 zhen1] |
| 本着 | [ běn zhe ] based on..., in conformance with.., taking as one's main principle |
| 本处 | [ běn chù ] here, this place |
| 本质 | [ běn zhì ] essence, nature, innate character, intrinsic quality |
| 本质上 | [ běn zhì shàng ] essentially, inherent |
| 本乡 | [ běn xiāng ] home village, one's native place |
| 本钱 | [ běn qián ] capital, (fig.) asset, advantage, the means (to do sth) |
| 本领 | [ běn lǐng ] skill, ability, capability, CL:項|项[xiang4],個|个[ge4] |
| 本题 | [ běn tí ] the subject under discussion, the point at issue |
| 本体 | [ běn tǐ ] main part, torso, the thing in itself, noumenon (object of purely intellectual perception according to Kant) |
| 本体论 | [ běn tǐ lùn ] ontology |
| ⇒ 一本正经 | [ yī běn zhèng jīng ] in deadly earnest, deadpan |
| ⇒ 一本万利 | [ yī běn wàn lì ] small capital, huge profit (idiom); to put in a little and get a lot out |
| ⇒ 三句话不离本行 | [ sān jù huà bù lí běn háng ] to talk shop all the time (idiom) |
| ⇒ 上网本 | [ shàng wǎng běn ] netbook |
| ⇒ 不变资本 | [ bù biàn zī běn ] constant capital |
| ⇒ 交粮本 | [ liáng běn ] to hand in one's ration cards, to die |
| ⇒ 人民基本权利 | [ rén mín jī běn quán lì ] fundamental civil rights |
| ⇒ 代数基本定理 | [ daì shù jī běn dìng lǐ ] fundamental theorem of algebra |
| ⇒ 代数学基本定理 | [ daì shù xué jī běn dìng lǐ ] fundamental theorem of algebra (every polynomial has a complex root) |
| ⇒ 以人为本 | [ yǐ rén weí běn ] people-oriented |
| ⇒ 修订本 | [ xiū dìng běn ] revised edition (of a book) |
| ⇒ 传本 | [ chuán běn ] edition (of a book) currently in circulation |
| ⇒ 剧本 | [ jù běn ] script for play, opera, movie etc, screenplay, scenario |
| ⇒ 助人为快乐之本 | [ zhù rén weí lè zhī běn ] pleasure from helping others |
| ⇒ 勤俭为服务之本 | [ qín jiǎn weí fú wù zhī běn ] hardwork and thriftiness are the foundations of service (idiom) |
| ⇒ 叔本华 | [ shū běn huá ] Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860), German post-Kantian philosopher |
| ⇒ 合订本 | [ hé dìng běn ] bound volume, one-volume edition |
| ⇒ 商业版本 | [ shāng yè bǎn běn ] commercial version (of software) |
| ⇒ 单行本 | [ dān xíng běn ] single volume edition, offprint |
| ⇒ 四项基本原则 | [ sì xiàng jī běn yuán zé ] the Four Cardinal Principles enunciated by Deng Xiaoping 鄧小平|邓小平[Deng4 Xiao3 ping2] in 1979: to uphold the socialist road, the dictatorship of the proletariat, the leadership of the CCP, and Maoism and Marxism-Leninism |
| ⇒ 基本原则 | [ jī běn yuán zé ] fundamental doctrine, guiding principle, raison d'être |
| ⇒ 基本单位 | [ jī běn dān weì ] basic unit, fundamental building block |
| ⇒ 基本多文种平面 | [ jī běn duō wén zhǒng píng miàn ] basic multilingual plane (BMP) |
| ⇒ 基本词汇 | [ jī běn cí huì ] basic word |
| ⇒ 基本点 | [ jī běn diǎn ] basis point (finance), abbr. to 基點|基点[ji1 dian3] |
| ⇒ 报本反始 | [ baò běn fǎn shǐ ] ensure that you pay debts of gratitude (idiom) |
| ⇒ 增订本 | [ zēng dìng běn ] revised and enlarged edition |
| ⇒ 墨尔本 | [ mò ěr běn ] Melbourne, Australia |
| ⇒ 外国资本 | [ waì guó zī běn ] foreign capital |
| ⇒ 够本 | [ goù běn ] to break even, to get one's money's worth |
| ⇒ 大学本科 | [ dà xué běn kē ] university undergraduate course |
| ⇒ 大本涅盘经 | [ dà běn niè pán jīng ] the great Nirvana sutra: every living thing has Buddha nature. |
| ⇒ 大本营 | [ dà běn yíng ] headquarters, base camp |
| ⇒ 大本钟 | [ dà běn zhōng ] Big Ben |
| ⇒ 宫本 | [ gōng běn ] Miyamoto (Japanese surname) |
| ⇒ 家家有本难念的经 | [ jiā jiā yoǔ běn nán niàn de jīng ] every family has its problems (idiom) |
| ⇒ 实受资本 | [ shí shou zī běn ] paid-up capital |
| ⇒ 实收资本 | [ shí shoū zī běn ] paid-in capital, contributed capital (finance) |
| ⇒ 实缴资本 | [ shí zī běn ] paid-in capital, contributed capital (finance) |
| ⇒ 对本 | [ duì běn ] (a return) equal to the capital, 100 percent profit |
| ⇒ 小日本儿 | [ rì běn ] erhua variant of 小日本[xiao3 Ri4 ben3] |
| ⇒ 山本头 | [ shān běn toú ] (Tw) "Yamamoto haircut", similar to a butch cut, but with even length (no tapering on the sides and back), said to be named after Admiral Yamamoto 山本五十六[Shan1 ben3 Wu3 shi2 liu4] |
| ⇒ 冈本 | [ gāng běn ] Okamoto (Japanese surname and place name) |
| ⇒ 布莱克本 | [ bù laí kè běn ] Blackburn |
| ⇒ 平装本 | [ píng zhuāng běn ] paperback (book) |
| ⇒ 几何原本 | [ jǐ hé yuán běn ] Euclid's Elements |
| ⇒ 微积分基本定理 | [ weī jī fēn jī běn dìng lǐ ] fundamental theorem of calculus |
| ⇒ 快乐大本营 | [ lè dà běn yíng ] Happy Camp (PRC TV series) |
| ⇒ 慈悲为本 | [ cí beī weí běn ] mercy as the guiding principle (idiom); the Buddhist teaching that nothing is valid except compassion |
| ⇒ 凭本能做事 | [ píng běn néng zuò shì ] to follow one's nose |
| ⇒ 户口本 | [ hù koǔ běn ] household register, household registration booklet, residence certificate |
| ⇒ 扳本儿 | [ bān běn ] to recoup losses (in gambling) |
| ⇒ 舍本逐末 | [ shě běn zhú mò ] to neglect the root and pursue the tip (idiom), to neglect fundamentals and concentrate on details |
| ⇒ 捞本 | [ laō běn ] to get one's money back (esp. gambling), to recoup one's losings |
| ⇒ 文本编辑器 | [ wén běn biān jí qì ] text editor |
| ⇒ 日本国志 | [ rì běn guó zhì ] A Record of Japan, by Huang Zunxian 黃遵憲|黄遵宪[Huang2 Zun1 xian4], an extended analysis of Meiji Japan |
| ⇒ 日本学 | [ rì běn xué ] Japanology |
| ⇒ 日本放送协会 | [ rì běn fàng sòng xié huì ] NHK (Nihon Hōsō Kyōkai), Japanese national broadcasting company |
| ⇒ 日本书纪 | [ rì běn shū jì ] Nihonshoki or Chronicles of Japan (c. 720) book of mythology and history |
| ⇒ 日本松雀鹰 | [ rì běn sōng què yīng ] (bird species of China) Japanese sparrowhawk (Accipiter gularis) |
| ⇒ 日本柳莺 | [ rì běn liǔ yīng ] (bird species of China) Japanese leaf warbler (Phylloscopus xanthodryas) |
| ⇒ 日本树莺 | [ rì běn shù yīng ] (bird species of China) Japanese bush warbler (Cettia diphone) |
| ⇒ 日本歌鸲 | [ rì běn gē qú ] (bird species of China) Japanese robin (Larvivora akahige) |
| ⇒ 日本沼虾 | [ rì běn zhaǒ xiā ] oriental river prawn (Macrobrachium nipponense), a species of freshwater shrimp, also called 青蝦|青虾[qing1 xia1] |
| ⇒ 日本经济新闻 | [ rì běn jīng jì xīn wén ] Nikkei Shimbun, Japanese equivalent of Financial Times |
| ⇒ 日本脑炎 | [ rì běn naǒ yán ] Japanese encephalitis |
| ⇒ 日本银行 | [ rì běn yín háng ] Bank of Japan |
| ⇒ 日本电报电话公司 | [ rì běn diàn baò diàn huà gōng sī ] Nippon Telegraph and Telephone, NTT |
| ⇒ 日本鹌鹑 | [ rì běn ān chún ] (bird species of China) Japanese quail (Coturnix japonica) |
| ⇒ 日本鹡鸰 | [ rì běn jí líng ] (bird species of China) Japanese wagtail (Motacilla grandis) |
| ⇒ 日记本 | [ rì jì běn ] diary (book) |
| ⇒ 书本 | [ shū běn ] book, CL:本[ben3] |
| ⇒ 有本钱 | [ yoǔ běn qián ] to be in a position to (take on a challenge, etc) |
| ⇒ 本本主义 | [ běn běn zhǔ yì ] book worship, bookishness |
| ⇒ 杜本内 | [ dù běn neì ] Dubonnet (name), Dubonnet (red vermouth aperitif wine) |
| ⇒ 格林尼治本初子午线 | [ gé lín ní zhì běn chū zǐ wǔ xiàn ] the Greenwich meridian |
| ⇒ 标本 | [ běn ] specimen, sample, the root cause and symptoms of a disease |
| ⇒ 标本虫 | [ běn chóng ] spider beetle |
| ⇒ 模式标本 | [ mó shì běn ] type specimen (used to define a species) |
| ⇒ 样本 | [ yàng běn ] sample, specimen |
| ⇒ 桥本 | [ běn ] Hashimoto (Japanese surname and place name) |
| ⇒ 桥本龙太郎 | [ běn lóng taì láng ] HASHIMOTO Ryūtarō (1937-2006), Japanese politician, prime minister 1996-1998 |
| ⇒ 机会成本 | [ jī huì chéng běn ] opportunity cost |
| ⇒ 正型标本 | [ zhèng xíng běn ] holotype |
| ⇒ 正模标本 | [ zhèng mó běn ] holotype |
| ⇒ 历史成本 | [ lì shǐ chéng běn ] historic cost (accounting) |
| ⇒ 历史版本 | [ lì shǐ bǎn běn ] historical version, a previous version (of an app, document etc) |
| ⇒ 残本 | [ cán běn ] extant fragment (of book) |
| ⇒ 江山易改，本性难移 | [ jiāng shān yì gaǐ běn xìng nán yí ] it is easier to change mountains and rivers than to alter one's character (idiom), you can't change who you are, Can the leopard change his spots? |
| ⇒ 沉没成本 | [ chén mò chéng běn ] sunk cost (economics) |
| ⇒ 治标不治本 | [ zhì bù zhì běn ] to treat the symptoms but not the root cause |
| ⇒ 洁本 | [ jié běn ] expurgated edition |
| ⇒ 熊本县 | [ xióng běn xiàn ] Kumamoto prefecture, Kyūshū, Japan |
| ⇒ 牙本质 | [ yá běn zhì ] dentin, dentine |
| ⇒ 生产成本 | [ shēng chǎn chéng běn ] production costs |
| ⇒ 生词本 | [ shēng cí běn ] vocabulary notebook |
| ⇒ 秘本 | [ mì běn ] a treasured rare book |
| ⇒ 神农本草经 | [ shén nóng běn caǒ jīng ] Shennong's Compendium of Materia Medica, a Han dynasty pharmacological compendium, 3 scrolls |
| ⇒ 笔记本 | [ bǐ jì běn ] notebook (stationery), CL:本[ben3], notebook (computing) |
| ⇒ 笔记本计算机 | [ bǐ jì běn jì suàn jī ] laptop, notebook (computer) |
| ⇒ 笔记本电脑 | [ bǐ jì běn diàn naǒ ] laptop, notebook (computer), CL:臺|台[tai2],部[bu4] |
| ⇒ 节本 | [ jié běn ] abridged version |
| ⇒ 节略本 | [ jié lvè běn ] abridged version |
| ⇒ 范本 | [ fàn běn ] model (example worthy of being imitated), template |
| ⇒ 简本 | [ jiǎn běn ] concise edition, abridged edition |
| ⇒ 约翰b7本仁 | [ yuē hàn běn rén ] John Bunyan (1628-1688), English puritan writer, author of Pilgrim's Progress 天路歷程|天路历程 |
| ⇒ 纯文本 | [ chún wén běn ] plain text (computing) |
| ⇒ 缀字课本 | [ zhuì zì kè běn ] spelling book |
| ⇒ 练习本 | [ liàn xí běn ] exercise book, workbook, CL:本[ben3] |
| ⇒ 缩印本 | [ suō yìn běn ] compact edition (of a dictionary etc) |
| ⇒ 总成本 | [ zǒng chéng běn ] total costs |
| ⇒ 绘本 | [ huì běn ] picture book |
| ⇒ 股本回报率 | [ gǔ běn huí baò lǜ ] return on equity (ROE) |
| ⇒ 脚本 | [ běn ] script |
| ⇒ 蓝本 | [ lán běn ] blueprint, source material on which later works (books, movies etc) are based |
| ⇒ 亏本 | [ kuī běn ] to make a loss |
| ⇒ 亏本出售 | [ kuī běn chū shoù ] to sell at a loss |
| ⇒ 血本无归 | [ xuè běn wú guī ] to lose everything one invested (idiom), to lose one's shirt |
| ⇒ 裙带资本主义 | [ qún daì zī běn zhǔ yì ] crony capitalism |
| ⇒ 复本 | [ fù běn ] copy |
| ⇒ 记事本 | [ jì shì běn ] notebook, paper notepad, laptop computer |
| ⇒ 试用本 | [ shì yòng běn ] inspection copy (of a textbook etc), trial edition |
| ⇒ 话本 | [ huà běn ] Song and Yuan literary form based on vernacular folk stories |
| ⇒ 认缴资本 | [ rèn zī běn ] subscribed capital (finance) |
| ⇒ 课本 | [ kè běn ] textbook, CL:本[ben3] |
| ⇒ 译本 | [ yì běn ] translation (translated version of a text) |
| ⇒ 读本 | [ dú běn ] reader, an instructional book |
| ⇒ 变本加厉 | [ biàn běn jiā lì ] lit. change to more severe (idiom); to become more intense (esp. of shortcoming), to aggravate, to intensify |
| ⇒ 猫本 | [ maō běn ] Melbourne (slang alternative for 墨爾本|墨尔本[Mo4 er3 ben3]) |
| ⇒ 资本 | [ zī běn ] capital (economics) |
| ⇒ 资本主义 | [ zī běn zhǔ yì ] capitalism |
| ⇒ 资本储备 | [ zī běn chǔ beì ] capital reserve |
| ⇒ 资本外逃 | [ zī běn waì taó ] outflow of capital |
| ⇒ 资本家 | [ zī běn jiā ] capitalist |
| ⇒ 资本市场 | [ zī běn shì chǎng ] capital market |
| ⇒ 资本计提 | [ zī běn jì tí ] capital requirement |
| ⇒ 资本论 | [ zī běn lùn ] Das Kapital (1867) by Karl Marx 卡爾·馬克思|卡尔·马克思[Ka3 er3 · Ma3 ke4 si1] |
| ⇒ 赔本 | [ peí běn ] loss, to sustain losses |
| ⇒ 卖本事 | [ maì běn shì ] to flaunt a skill, to give display to one's ability, to show off a feat, to vaunt one's tricks |
| ⇒ 账本 | [ zhàng běn ] account book |
| ⇒ 超文本传输协定 | [ chaō wén běn chuán shū xié dìng ] hypertext transfer protocol, HTTP |
| ⇒ 超文本传送协议 | [ chaō wén běn chuán sòng xié yì ] hypertext transfer protocol (HTTP) |
| ⇒ 超文本标记语言 | [ chaō wén běn jì yǔ yán ] hypertext markup language, HTML |
| ⇒ 赵本山 | [ zhaò běn shān ] Zhao Benshan (1958-), universally known PRC TV comedian |
| ⇒ 身体是革命的本钱 | [ shēn tǐ shì gé mìng de běn qián ] lit. the body is the revolution's capital, fig. good health is a prerequisite for work (Mao Zedong's saying) |
| ⇒ 追本穷源 | [ zhuī běn qióng yuán ] see 追本溯源[zhui1 ben3 su4 yuan2] |
| ⇒ 连本带利 | [ lián běn daì lì ] both principal and interest, capital plus profit |
| ⇒ 选本 | [ xuǎn běn ] anthology, selected works |
| ⇒ 还本 | [ huán běn ] to repay capital |
| ⇒ 边际成本 | [ biān jì chéng běn ] marginal cost |
| ⇒ 金汇兑本位制 | [ jīn huì duì běn weì zhì ] gold exchange standard (economics) |
| ⇒ 银本位 | [ yín běn weì ] Silver Standard (monetary standard) |
| ⇒ 银本位制 | [ yín běn weì zhì ] Silver Standard (monetary standard) |
| ⇒ 开本 | [ kaī běn ] book format, similar to in-4°, in-8° etc (a 16-kai format 16開|16开[shi2 liu4 kai1] is roughly A4), abbr. to 開|开[kai1] |
| ⇒ 电影剧本 | [ diàn yǐng jù běn ] screenplay |
| ⇒ 高本汉 | [ gaō běn hàn ] Bernhard Karlgren (1889-1978), distinguished Swedish linguist and sinologist |
