| 本 | [ běn ] root, stem, origin, source, this, the current, original, inherent, originally, classifier for books, periodicals, files etc |
| 本b7拉登 | [ běn lā dēng ] Osama bin Laden (1957-2011), leader of Al Qaeda |
| 本事 | [ běn shì ] source material, original story |
| 本事 | [ běn shi ] ability, skill |
| 本人 | [ běn rén ] the person himself, I (humble form used in speeches), oneself, myself, in person, personal |
| 本位 | [ běn weì ] standard, one's own department or unit |
| 本位主義 | [ běn weì zhǔ yì ] selfish departmentalism, departmental selfishness |
| 本位制 | [ běn weì zhì ] monetary standard |
| 本位號 | [ běn weì haò ] (music notation) natural sign, ♮ |
| 本位貨幣 | [ běn weì huò bì ] local currency, our own currency, abbr. to 本幣|本币 |
| 本位音 | [ běn weì yīn ] (music) natural note |
| 本來 | [ běn laí ] original, originally, at first, it goes without saying, of course |
| 本來面目 | [ běn laí miàn mù ] true colors, true features |
| 本俸 | [ běn fèng ] basic salary |
| 本傑明 | [ běn jié míng ] Benjamin (person name) |
| 本傑明b7富蘭克林 | [ běn jié míng fù lán kè lín ] Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790), American writer, scientist, inventor, politician and diplomat |
| 本內特 | [ běn neì tè ] Bennett (surname) |
| 本分 | [ běn fèn ] (to play) one's part, one's role, one's duty, (to stay within) one's bounds, dutiful, keeping to one's role |
| 本初子午線 | [ běn chū zǐ wǔ xiàn ] the first meridian, the prime meridian |
| 本利 | [ běn lì ] principal and interest, capital and profit |
| 本名 | [ běn míng ] original name, real name, personal name |
| 本命年 | [ běn mìng nián ] year of one's birth sign, according to the cycle of 12 animals of the earthly branches 地支[di4 zhi1] |
| 本因坊 | [ běn yīn fāng ] Honinbo, major school of Go in Japan (1612-1940), title held by the winner of the Honinbo Go tournament (1941-) |
| 本因坊秀策 | [ běn yīn fāng xiù cè ] Honinbo Shusaku (1829-1862), Japanese Go player |
| 本固枝榮 | [ běn gù zhī róng ] when the root is firm, the branches flourish |
| 本國 | [ běn guó ] one's own country |
| 本國人 | [ běn guó rén ] natives of one's own country |
| 本土 | [ běn tǔ ] one's native country, native, local, metropolitan territory |
| 本土化 | [ běn tǔ huà ] to localize, localization |
| 本土派 | [ běn tǔ paì ] local faction, pro-localization faction (in Taiwanese politics) |
| 本地 | [ běn dì ] local, this locality |
| 本地人 | [ běn dì rén ] native person (of a country) |
| 本地化 | [ běn dì huà ] localization, adaptation (to foreign environment) |
| 本地管理界面 | [ běn dì guǎn lǐ jiè miàn ] LMI, local management interface (telecommunications) |
| 本埠 | [ běn bù ] this city, this town |
| 本報 | [ běn baò ] this newspaper |
| 本壘 | [ běn leǐ ] home base, home plate (in baseball) |
| 本壘打 | [ běn leǐ dǎ ] home run (baseball) |
| 本士 | [ běn shì ] (loanword) pence, penny |
| 本子 | [ běn zi ] book, notebook, Japanese-style self-published comic (esp. an erotic one), aka "dōjinshi", CL:本[ben3], edition |
| 本字 | [ běn zì ] original form of a Chinese character |
| 本家 | [ běn jiā ] a member of the same clan, a distant relative with the same family name |
| 本尊 | [ běn zūn ] (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[fen1 shen1]), (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) |
| 本小利微 | [ běn lì weī ] (of a small business) to have very little capital and very modest profits |
| 本尼迪 | [ běn ní dí ] Benedictus |
| 本屆 | [ běn jiè ] current, this year |
| 本島 | [ běn daǒ ] main island |
| 本州 | [ běn zhoū ] Honshū, the main island of Japan |
| 本市 | [ běn shì ] this city, our city |
| 本幣 | [ běn bì ] local currency, our own currency, abbr. for 本位貨幣|本位货币 |
| 本幫菜 | [ běn bāng caì ] Shanghainese food |
| 本年度 | [ běn nián dù ] this year, the current year |
| 本底 | [ běn dǐ ] background |
| 本底計數 | [ běn dǐ jì shù ] background count |
| 本底調查 | [ běn dǐ chá ] background investigation |
| 本底輻射 | [ běn dǐ fú shè ] background radiation |
| 本影 | [ běn yǐng ] umbra |
| 本徵值 | [ běn zhēng zhí ] eigenvalue (math.), also written 特徵值|特征值 |
| 本徵向量 | [ běn zhēng xiàng liàng ] eigenvector (math.), also written 特徵向量|特征向量 |
| 本性 | [ běn xìng ] natural instincts, nature, inherent quality |
| 本性難移 | [ 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) |
| 本息 | [ běn xī ] principal and interest (on a loan) |
| 本意 | [ běn yì ] original idea, real intention, etymon |
| 本應 | [ běn yīng ] should have, ought to have |
| 本我 | [ běn wǒ ] id, the self |
| 本拉登 | [ běn lā dēng ] (Osama) bin Laden (1957-2011), leader of Al Qaeda |
| 本文 | [ běn wén ] this text, article, the main body of a book |
| 本族語 | [ běn zú yǔ ] native language, mother tongue |
| 本日 | [ běn rì ] today |
| 本星期 | [ běn xīng qī ] this week |
| 本月 | [ běn yuè ] this month, the current month |
| 本朝 | [ běn chaó ] the current dynasty |
| 本期 | [ běn qī ] the current period, this term (usually in finance) |
| 本末 | [ běn mò ] the whole course of an event from beginning to end, ins and outs, the fundamental and the incidental |
| 本末倒置 | [ běn mò daò zhì ] 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 |
| 本本 | [ běn běn ] notebook computer (diminutive), laptop |
| 本本主義 | [ běn běn zhǔ yì ] book worship, bookishness |
| 本本分分 | [ běn běn fèn fèn ] decorous, respectable |
| 本業 | [ běn yè ] business in which a company has traditionally engaged (e.g. before diversifying), original business, core business, (literary) agriculture |
| 本源 | [ běn yuán ] origin, source |
| 本溪 | [ běn xī ] Benxi prefecture-level city in Liaoning province 遼寧省|辽宁省[Liao2 ning2 Sheng3] in northeast China |
| 本溪市 | [ běn xī shì ] Benxi prefecture-level city in Liaoning province 遼寧省|辽宁省[Liao2 ning2 Sheng3] in northeast China |
| 本溪滿族自治縣 | [ běn xī mǎn zú zì zhì xiàn ] Benxi Manchu autonomous county in Benxi 本溪, Liaoning |
| 本溪縣 | [ běn xī xiàn ] Benxi Manchu autonomous county in Benxi 本溪, Liaoning |
| 本生燈 | [ běn shēng dēng ] Bunsen burner |
| 本田 | [ běn tián ] Honda (Japanese name) |
| 本益比 | [ běn yì bǐ ] P⁄E ratio (price-to-earnings ratio) |
| 本相 | [ běn xiàng ] original form |
| 本省人 | [ běn shěng rén ] people of this province, (in Taiwan) Han Chinese people other than those who moved to Taiwan from mainland China after 1945 and their descendants |
| 本票 | [ běn ] cashier's check, promissory note |
| 本科 | [ běn kē ] undergraduate course, undergraduate (attributive) |
| 本科生 | [ běn kē shēng ] undergraduate student |
| 本篤十六世 | [ běn dǔ shí liù shì ] Pope Benedict XVI, original name Joseph Alois Ratzinger (1927-), pope 2005-2013 |
| 本篤會 | [ běn dǔ huì ] the Benedictines |
| 本紀 | [ běn jì ] biographic sketch of an emperor |
| 本經 | [ běn jīng ] classic book, sutra |
| 本罪 | [ běn zuì ] actual sin (Christian notion, as opposed to original sin 原罪) |
| 本義 | [ běn yì ] original meaning, literal sense |
| 本職 | [ běn zhí ] one's job |
| 本能 | [ běn néng ] instinct |
| 本臺 | [ běn taí ] this radio station |
| 本色 | [ běn sè ] inherent qualities, natural qualities, distinctive character, true qualities |
| 本色 | [ běn shaǐ ] natural color |
| 本茨 | [ běn cí ] Benz (name), Karl Benz (1844-1929), motor car pioneer |
| 本草 | [ běn caǒ ] a book on Chinese (herbal) medicine, Chinese materia medica |
| 本草綱目 | [ běn caǒ gāng mù ] Compendium of Medical Herbs 1596, compiled by Li Shizhen 李時珍|李时珍[Li3 Shi2 zhen1] |
| 本著 | [ běn zhe ] based on..., in conformance with.., taking as one's main principle |
| 本處 | [ běn chù ] here, this place |
| 本行 | [ běn háng ] one's line, one's own profession |
| 本質 | [ běn zhì ] essence, nature, innate character, intrinsic quality |
| 本質上 | [ běn zhì shàng ] essentially, inherent |
| 本身 | [ běn shēn ] itself, in itself, per se |
| 本那比 | [ běn nà bǐ ] see 本那比市[Ben3 na4 bi3 shi4] |
| 本那比市 | [ běn nà bǐ shì ] Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada |
| 本部 | [ běn bù ] headquarters, head office |
| 本鄉 | [ běn xiāng ] home village, one's native place |
| 本金 | [ běn jīn ] capital, principal |
| 本錢 | [ běn qián ] capital, (fig.) asset, advantage, the means (to do sth) |
| 本領 | [ běn lǐng ] skill, ability, capability, CL:項|项[xiang4],個|个[ge4] |
| 本題 | [ běn tí ] the subject under discussion, the point at issue |
| 本體 | [ běn tǐ ] main part, torso, the thing in itself, noumenon (object of purely intellectual perception according to Kant) |
| 本體論 | [ běn tǐ lùn ] ontology |
| ⇒ 一本正經 | [ yī běn zhèng jīng ] in deadly earnest, deadpan |
| ⇒ 一本萬利 | [ yī běn wàn lì ] small capital, huge profit (idiom); to put in a little and get a lot out |
| ⇒ 三句話不離本行 | [ sān jù huà bù lí běn háng ] to talk shop all the time (idiom) |
| ⇒ 上網本 | [ shàng wǎng běn ] netbook |
| ⇒ 不惜血本 | [ bù xī xuè běn ] to spare no effort, to devote all one's energies |
| ⇒ 不變資本 | [ bù biàn zī běn ] constant capital |
| ⇒ 交糧本 | [ liáng běn ] to hand in one's ration cards, to die |
| ⇒ 人之初，性本善 | [ rén zhī chū xìng běn shàn ] man at birth is fundamentally good in nature, the first two lines of Three Character Classic 三字經|三字经[San1 zi4 Jing1] |
| ⇒ 人民基本權利 | [ rén mín jī běn quán lì ] fundamental civil rights |
| ⇒ 代數基本定理 | [ daì shù jī běn dìng lǐ ] fundamental theorem of algebra |
| ⇒ 代數學基本定理 | [ daì shù xué jī běn dìng lǐ ] fundamental theorem of algebra (every polynomial has a complex root) |
| ⇒ 以人為本 | [ yǐ rén weí běn ] people-oriented |
| ⇒ 以本人名 | [ yǐ běn rén míng ] under one's own name, named after oneself |
| ⇒ 低成本 | [ dī chéng běn ] low cost, inexpensive |
| ⇒ 保本 | [ baǒ běn ] to break even |
| ⇒ 修訂本 | [ xiū dìng běn ] revised edition (of a book) |
| ⇒ 傳本 | [ chuán běn ] edition (of a book) currently in circulation |
| ⇒ 元元本本 | [ yuán yuán běn běn ] variant of 原原本本[yuan2 yuan2 ben3 ben3] |
| ⇒ 元元本本 | [ yuán yuán běn běn ] variant of 原原本本[yuan2 yuan2 ben3 ben3] |
| ⇒ 全本 | [ quán běn ] whole edition, whole performance (of Chinese opera) |
| ⇒ 刻本 | [ kè běn ] block printed edition |
| ⇒ 副本 | [ fù běn ] copy, duplicate, transcript, (in online games) instance |
| ⇒ 劇本 | [ jù běn ] script for play, opera, movie etc, screenplay, scenario |
| ⇒ 加工成本 | [ jiā gōng chéng běn ] processing cost |
| ⇒ 助人為快樂之本 | [ zhù rén weí lè zhī běn ] pleasure from helping others |
| ⇒ 勤儉為服務之本 | [ qín jiǎn weí fú wù zhī běn ] hardwork and thriftiness are the foundations of service (idiom) |
| ⇒ 印本 | [ yìn běn ] printed book, copy |
| ⇒ 原原本本 | [ yuán yuán běn běn ] from beginning to end, in its entirety, in accord with fact, literal |
| ⇒ 原原本本 | [ yuán yuán běn běn ] from beginning to end, in its entirety, in accord with fact, literal |
| ⇒ 原本 | [ yuán běn ] originally, original |
| ⇒ 叔本華 | [ shū běn huá ] Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860), German post-Kantian philosopher |
| ⇒ 合訂本 | [ hé dìng běn ] bound volume, one-volume edition |
| ⇒ 吉本斯 | [ jí běn sī ] Gibbons (name) |
| ⇒ 哥本哈根 | [ gē běn hā gēn ] Copenhagen or København, capital of Denmark |
| ⇒ 唱本 | [ chàng běn ] opera libretto |
| ⇒ 商業版本 | [ shāng yè bǎn běn ] commercial version (of software) |
| ⇒ 善本 | [ shàn běn ] old book, good book, reliable book, rare book |
| ⇒ 單行本 | [ dān xíng běn ] single volume edition, offprint |
| ⇒ 四項基本原則 | [ 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 |
| ⇒ 坂本 | [ bǎn běn ] Sakamoto (Japanese surname) |
| ⇒ 基本 | [ jī běn ] basic, fundamental, main, elementary |
| ⇒ 基本上 | [ jī běn shang ] basically, on the whole |
| ⇒ 基本利率 | [ jī běn lì lǜ ] base rate (e.g. interest rate set by central bank) |
| ⇒ 基本功 | [ jī běn gōng ] basic skills, fundamentals |
| ⇒ 基本原則 | [ jī běn yuán zé ] fundamental doctrine, guiding principle, raison d'être |
| ⇒ 基本原理 | [ jī běn yuán lǐ ] fundamental principle |
| ⇒ 基本單位 | [ jī běn dān weì ] basic unit, fundamental building block |
| ⇒ 基本多文種平面 | [ jī běn duō wén zhǒng píng miàn ] basic multilingual plane (BMP) |
| ⇒ 基本完成 | [ jī běn wán chéng ] fundamentally complete, basically finished |
| ⇒ 基本定理 | [ jī běn dìng lǐ ] fundamental theorem |
| ⇒ 基本概念 | [ jī běn gaì niàn ] basic concept |
| ⇒ 基本法 | [ jī běn fǎ ] basic law (constitutional document) |
| ⇒ 基本粒子 | [ jī běn lì zǐ ] elementary particle (particle physics) |
| ⇒ 基本詞彙 | [ jī běn cí huì ] basic word |
| ⇒ 基本需要 | [ jī běn xū yaò ] basic necessity, fundamental need |
| ⇒ 基本點 | [ jī běn diǎn ] basis point (finance), abbr. to 基點|基点[ji1 dian3] |
| ⇒ 報本反始 | [ baò běn fǎn shǐ ] ensure that you pay debts of gratitude (idiom) |
| ⇒ 增訂本 | [ zēng dìng běn ] revised and enlarged edition |
| ⇒ 墨巴本 | [ mò bā běn ] Mbabane, capital of Swaziland (Tw) |
| ⇒ 墨爾本 | [ mò ěr běn ] Melbourne, Australia |
| ⇒ 外國資本 | [ waì guó zī běn ] foreign capital |
| ⇒ 夠本 | [ goù běn ] to break even, to get one's money's worth |
| ⇒ 大學本科 | [ dà xué běn kē ] university undergraduate course |
| ⇒ 大本涅槃經 | [ dà běn niè pán jīng ] the great Nirvana sutra: every living thing has Buddha nature. |
| ⇒ 大本營 | [ dà běn yíng ] headquarters, base camp |
| ⇒ 大本鐘 | [ dà běn zhōng ] Big Ben |
| ⇒ 天然本地 | [ tiān rán běn dì ] natural background |
| ⇒ 它本身 | [ tā běn shēn ] itself |
| ⇒ 宮本 | [ gōng běn ] Miyamoto (Japanese surname) |
| ⇒ 家家有本難念的經 | [ jiā jiā yoǔ běn nán niàn de jīng ] every family has its problems (idiom) |
| ⇒ 富文本 | [ fù wén běn ] rich text (computing) |
| ⇒ 實受資本 | [ shí shou zī běn ] paid-up capital |
| ⇒ 實收資本 | [ shí shoū zī běn ] paid-in capital, contributed capital (finance) |
| ⇒ 實繳資本 | [ shí zī běn ] paid-in capital, contributed capital (finance) |
| ⇒ 對本 | [ duì běn ] (a return) equal to the capital, 100 percent profit |
| ⇒ 小日本 | [ rì běn ] (derog.) Japanese person, Jap |
| ⇒ 小日本兒 | [ rì běn ] erhua variant of 小日本[xiao3 Ri4 ben3] |
| ⇒ 小本 | [ běn ] small capital, on a shoestring |
| ⇒ 山本 | [ shān běn ] Yamamoto (Japanese surname) |
| ⇒ 山本五十六 | [ shān běn wǔ shí liù ] YAMAMOTO Isoroku (1884-1943), Japanese admiral |
| ⇒ 山本頭 | [ 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] |
| ⇒ 岡本 | [ gāng běn ] Okamoto (Japanese surname and place name) |
| ⇒ 布萊克本 | [ bù laí kè běn ] Blackburn |
| ⇒ 平均成本法 | [ píng jūn chéng běn fǎ ] (finance) dollar cost averaging |
| ⇒ 平裝本 | [ píng zhuāng běn ] paperback (book) |
| ⇒ 幾何原本 | [ jǐ hé yuán běn ] Euclid's Elements |
| ⇒ 影印本 | [ yǐng yìn běn ] a photocopy |
| ⇒ 影本 | [ yǐng běn ] copy (of a document), book with model calligraphy for copying |
| ⇒ 微積分基本定理 | [ weī jī fēn jī běn dìng lǐ ] fundamental theorem of calculus |
| ⇒ 忘本 | [ wàng běn ] to forget one's roots |
| ⇒ 快樂大本營 | [ lè dà běn yíng ] Happy Camp (PRC TV series) |
| ⇒ 慈悲為本 | [ cí beī weí běn ] mercy as the guiding principle (idiom); the Buddhist teaching that nothing is valid except compassion |
| ⇒ 憑本能做事 | [ píng běn néng zuò shì ] to follow one's nose |
| ⇒ 成本 | [ chéng běn ] (manufacturing, production etc) costs |
| ⇒ 戶口本 | [ hù koǔ běn ] household register, household registration booklet, residence certificate |
| ⇒ 手抄本 | [ shoǔ chaō běn ] manuscript copy of a book (before the printing press) |
| ⇒ 扳本 | [ bān běn ] to recoup losses (in gambling) |
| ⇒ 扳本兒 | [ bān běn ] to recoup losses (in gambling) |
| ⇒ 抄本 | [ chaō běn ] handwritten copy |
| ⇒ 折本 | [ shé běn ] a loss, to lose money |
| ⇒ 拓本 | [ tà běn ] rubbing of inscription |
| ⇒ 捨本逐末 | [ shě běn zhú mò ] to neglect the root and pursue the tip (idiom), to neglect fundamentals and concentrate on details |
| ⇒ 推本溯源 | [ tuī běn sù yuán ] to go back to the source |
| ⇒ 撈本 | [ laō běn ] to get one's money back (esp. gambling), to recoup one's losings |
| ⇒ 教本 | [ běn ] textbook |
| ⇒ 文本 | [ wén běn ] a text (article, script, contract etc), version of a text (copy, translation, abridged version etc), (computing) text |
| ⇒ 文本框 | [ wén běn kuàng ] text box (computing) |
| ⇒ 文本編輯器 | [ wén běn biān jí qì ] text editor |
| ⇒ 新修本草 | [ xīn xiū běn caǒ ] Tang dynasty compendium of herbal medicine |
| ⇒ 日本 | [ rì běn ] Japan |
| ⇒ 日本人 | [ rì běn rén ] Japanese person or people |
| ⇒ 日本共同社 | [ rì běn gòng tóng shè ] Kyōdō, Japanese news agency |
| ⇒ 日本刀 | [ rì běn daō ] Japanese sword, katana |
| ⇒ 日本原子能研究所 | [ rì běn yuán zǐ néng yán jiū suǒ ] Japan Atomic Energy Research Institute |
| ⇒ 日本叉尾海燕 | [ rì běn chā weǐ haǐ yàn ] (bird species of China) Matsudaira's storm petrel (Oceanodroma matsudairae) |
| ⇒ 日本國誌 | [ 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 |
| ⇒ 日本天皇 | [ rì běn tiān huáng ] Emperor of Japan |
| ⇒ 日本學 | [ rì běn xué ] Japanology |
| ⇒ 日本放送協會 | [ rì běn fàng sòng xié huì ] NHK (Nihon Hōsō Kyōkai), Japanese national broadcasting company |
| ⇒ 日本書紀 | [ rì běn shū jì ] Nihonshoki or Chronicles of Japan (c. 720) book of mythology and history |
| ⇒ 日本松雀鷹 | [ rì běn sōng què yīng ] (bird species of China) Japanese sparrowhawk (Accipiter gularis) |
| ⇒ 日本柳鶯 | [ rì běn liǔ yīng ] (bird species of China) Japanese leaf warbler (Phylloscopus xanthodryas) |
| ⇒ 日本樹鶯 | [ rì běn shù yīng ] (bird species of China) Japanese bush warbler (Cettia diphone) |
| ⇒ 日本歌鴝 | [ rì běn gē qú ] (bird species of China) Japanese robin (Larvivora akahige) |
| ⇒ 日本沼蝦 | [ rì běn zhaǒ xiā ] oriental river prawn (Macrobrachium nipponense), a species of freshwater shrimp, also called 青蝦|青虾[qing1 xia1] |
| ⇒ 日本海 | [ rì běn haǐ ] Sea of Japan |
| ⇒ 日本竹筷 | [ rì běn zhú ] disposable chopsticks |
| ⇒ 日本米酒 | [ rì běn mǐ jiǔ ] Japanese rice wine, sake |
| ⇒ 日本經濟新聞 | [ rì běn jīng jì xīn wén ] Nikkei Shimbun, Japanese equivalent of Financial Times |
| ⇒ 日本腦炎 | [ rì běn naǒ yán ] Japanese encephalitis |
| ⇒ 日本航空 | [ rì běn háng kōng ] Japan Airlines (JAL) |
| ⇒ 日本銀行 | [ rì běn yín háng ] Bank of Japan |
| ⇒ 日本電報電話公司 | [ rì běn diàn baò diàn huà gōng sī ] Nippon Telegraph and Telephone, NTT |
| ⇒ 日本鬼子 | [ rì běn guǐ zi ] Japanese devil (common term of abuse in wartime China and in subsequent writing) |
| ⇒ 日本鵪鶉 | [ rì běn ān chún ] (bird species of China) Japanese quail (Coturnix japonica) |
| ⇒ 日本鶺鴒 | [ rì běn jí líng ] (bird species of China) Japanese wagtail (Motacilla grandis) |
| ⇒ 日本黑道 | [ rì běn heī daò ] Yakuza (Japanese mafia) |
| ⇒ 日記本 | [ rì jì běn ] diary (book) |
| ⇒ 書本 | [ shū běn ] book, CL:本[ben3] |
| ⇒ 有本事 | [ yoǔ běn shi ] to have what it takes, (coll.) (often followed by 就[jiu4]) (used to challenge sb) if you're so clever, ..., if she's so tough, ... etc, Example: 有本事就打我[you3 ben3 shi5 jiu4 da3 wo3] Hit me if you dare! |
| ⇒ 有本錢 | [ yoǔ běn qián ] to be in a position to (take on a challenge, etc) |
| ⇒ 木本植物 | [ mù běn zhí wù ] woody plant |
| ⇒ 本本 | [ běn běn ] notebook computer (diminutive), laptop |
| ⇒ 本本主義 | [ běn běn zhǔ yì ] book worship, bookishness |
| ⇒ 本本分分 | [ běn běn fèn fèn ] decorous, respectable |
| ⇒ 杉本 | [ shān běn ] Sugimoto (Japanese surname) |
| ⇒ 杜本內 | [ dù běn neì ] Dubonnet (name), Dubonnet (red vermouth aperitif wine) |
| ⇒ 松本 | [ sōng běn ] Matsumoto (Japanese surname and place name) |
| ⇒ 根本 | [ gēn běn ] fundamental, basic, root, simply, absolutely (not), (not) at all, CL:個|个[ge4] |
| ⇒ 根本法 | [ gēn běn fǎ ] fundamental law, body of basic laws |
| ⇒ 格林尼治本初子午線 | [ gé lín ní zhì běn chū zǐ wǔ xiàn ] the Greenwich meridian |
| ⇒ 標本 | [ běn ] specimen, sample, the root cause and symptoms of a disease |
| ⇒ 標本蟲 | [ běn chóng ] spider beetle |
| ⇒ 模式標本 | [ mó shì běn ] type specimen (used to define a species) |
| ⇒ 樣本 | [ yàng běn ] sample, specimen |
| ⇒ 橋本 | [ běn ] Hashimoto (Japanese surname and place name) |
| ⇒ 橋本龍太郎 | [ běn lóng taì láng ] HASHIMOTO Ryūtarō (1937-2006), Japanese politician, prime minister 1996-1998 |
| ⇒ 機會成本 | [ jī huì chéng běn ] opportunity cost |
| ⇒ 正型標本 | [ zhèng xíng běn ] holotype |
| ⇒ 正常成本 | [ zhèng cháng chéng běn ] normal cost (accountancy) |
| ⇒ 正本 | [ zhèng běn ] original (of a document), reserved copy (of a library book) |
| ⇒ 正模標本 | [ zhèng mó běn ] holotype |
| ⇒ 歷史成本 | [ lì shǐ chéng běn ] historic cost (accounting) |
| ⇒ 歷史版本 | [ lì shǐ bǎn běn ] historical version, a previous version (of an app, document etc) |
| ⇒ 殘本 | [ cán běn ] extant fragment (of book) |
| ⇒ 江山易改，本性難移 | [ 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? |
| ⇒ 沉沒成本 | [ chén mò chéng běn ] sunk cost (economics) |
| ⇒ 治本 | [ zhì běn ] to take radical measures, to get to the root (of a problem etc) |
| ⇒ 治標不治本 | [ zhì bù zhì běn ] to treat the symptoms but not the root cause |
| ⇒ 源源本本 | [ yuán yuán běn běn ] variant of 原原本本[yuan2 yuan2 ben3 ben3] |
| ⇒ 源源本本 | [ yuán yuán běn běn ] variant of 原原本本[yuan2 yuan2 ben3 ben3] |
| ⇒ 潔本 | [ jié běn ] expurgated edition |
| ⇒ 照本宣科 | [ zhaò běn xuān kē ] a wooden word-by-word reading |
| ⇒ 熊本 | [ xióng běn ] Kumamoto city and prefecture in west Kyūshū 九州, Japan |
| ⇒ 熊本縣 | [ xióng běn xiàn ] Kumamoto prefecture, Kyūshū, Japan |
| ⇒ 版本 | [ bǎn běn ] version, edition, release |
| ⇒ 牙本質 | [ yá běn zhì ] dentin, dentine |
| ⇒ 生產成本 | [ shēng chǎn chéng běn ] production costs |
| ⇒ 生詞本 | [ shēng cí běn ] vocabulary notebook |
| ⇒ 田格本 | [ tián gé běn ] exercise book for practicing Chinese character handwriting (each page being a grid of blank cells divided into quadrants, like the character 田) |
| ⇒ 留言本 | [ liú yán běn ] guestbook |
| ⇒ 祕本 | [ mì běn ] a treasured rare book |
| ⇒ 神農本草經 | [ shén nóng běn caǒ jīng ] Shennong's Compendium of Materia Medica, a Han dynasty pharmacological compendium, 3 scrolls |
| ⇒ 禾本科 | [ hé běn kē ] Graminae or Poaceae, the grass family |
| ⇒ 稿本 | [ gaǒ běn ] manuscript (of a book etc), sketch (of a design etc) |
| ⇒ 第一基本形式 | [ dì yī jī běn xíng shì ] (math.) first fundamental form |
| ⇒ 筆記本 | [ bǐ jì běn ] notebook (stationery), CL:本[ben3], notebook (computing) |
| ⇒ 筆記本計算機 | [ bǐ jì běn jì suàn jī ] laptop, notebook (computer) |
| ⇒ 筆記本電腦 | [ bǐ jì běn diàn naǒ ] laptop, notebook (computer), CL:臺|台[tai2],部[bu4] |
| ⇒ 節本 | [ jié běn ] abridged version |
| ⇒ 節略本 | [ jié lvè běn ] abridged version |
| ⇒ 範本 | [ fàn běn ] model (example worthy of being imitated), template |
| ⇒ 簡本 | [ jiǎn běn ] concise edition, abridged edition |
| ⇒ 約翰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 |
| ⇒ 純文本 | [ chún wén běn ] plain text (computing) |
| ⇒ 綴字課本 | [ zhuì zì kè běn ] spelling book |
| ⇒ 練習本 | [ liàn xí běn ] exercise book, workbook, CL:本[ben3] |
| ⇒ 縮印本 | [ suō yìn běn ] compact edition (of a dictionary etc) |
| ⇒ 總成本 | [ zǒng chéng běn ] total costs |
| ⇒ 繁本 | [ fán běn ] detailed edition, unexpurgated version |
| ⇒ 繪本 | [ huì běn ] picture book |
| ⇒ 翻本 | [ fān běn ] to win back one's money (gambling etc) |
| ⇒ 老本 | [ laǒ běn ] capital, assets, savings, nest egg, (fig.) reputation, laurels (to rest upon), old edition of a book, (tree) trunk |
| ⇒ 考本 | [ kaǒ běn ] to take a relevant exam for a certificate (e.g. driving test, license etc) |
| ⇒ 股本 | [ gǔ běn ] capital stock, investment |
| ⇒ 股本回報率 | [ gǔ běn huí baò lǜ ] return on equity (ROE) |
| ⇒ 股本金比率 | [ gǔ běn jīn bǐ lǜ ] equity ratio |
| ⇒ 腳本 | [ běn ] script |
| ⇒ 草本 | [ caǒ běn ] grass, herb |
| ⇒ 草本植物 | [ caǒ běn zhí wù ] herbaceous plant |
| ⇒ 藁本 | [ gaǒ běn ] Ligusticum levisticum (Chinese lovage root), ligusticum root |
| ⇒ 藍本 | [ lán běn ] blueprint, source material on which later works (books, movies etc) are based |
| ⇒ 藤本 | [ téng běn ] Fujimoto (Japanese surname) |
| ⇒ 藤本植物 | [ téng běn zhí wù ] vine plant |
| ⇒ 虧本 | [ kuī běn ] to make a loss |
| ⇒ 虧本出售 | [ kuī běn chū shoù ] to sell at a loss |
| ⇒ 血本 | [ xuè běn ] hard-earned capital |
| ⇒ 血本無歸 | [ xuè běn wú guī ] to lose everything one invested (idiom), to lose one's shirt |
| ⇒ 袖珍本 | [ xiù zhēn běn ] pocket book, paperback |
| ⇒ 裙帶資本主義 | [ qún daì zī běn zhǔ yì ] crony capitalism |
| ⇒ 複本 | [ fù běn ] copy |
| ⇒ 記事本 | [ jì shì běn ] notebook, paper notepad, laptop computer |
| ⇒ 試用本 | [ shì yòng běn ] inspection copy (of a textbook etc), trial edition |
| ⇒ 話本 | [ huà běn ] Song and Yuan literary form based on vernacular folk stories |
| ⇒ 認繳資本 | [ rèn zī běn ] subscribed capital (finance) |
| ⇒ 課本 | [ kè běn ] textbook, CL:本[ben3] |
| ⇒ 譯本 | [ yì běn ] translation (translated version of a text) |
| ⇒ 讀本 | [ dú běn ] reader, an instructional book |
| ⇒ 變本加厲 | [ biàn běn jiā lì ] lit. change to more severe (idiom); to become more intense (esp. of shortcoming), to aggravate, to intensify |
| ⇒ 貓本 | [ maō běn ] Melbourne (slang alternative for 墨爾本|墨尔本[Mo4 er3 ben3]) |
| ⇒ 資本 | [ zī běn ] capital (economics) |
| ⇒ 資本主義 | [ zī běn zhǔ yì ] capitalism |
| ⇒ 資本儲備 | [ zī běn chǔ beì ] capital reserve |
| ⇒ 資本外逃 | [ zī běn waì taó ] outflow of capital |
| ⇒ 資本家 | [ zī běn jiā ] capitalist |
| ⇒ 資本市場 | [ zī běn shì chǎng ] capital market |
| ⇒ 資本計提 | [ zī běn jì tí ] capital requirement |
| ⇒ 資本論 | [ zī běn lùn ] Das Kapital (1867) by Karl Marx 卡爾·馬克思|卡尔·马克思[Ka3 er3 · Ma3 ke4 si1] |
| ⇒ 賠本 | [ peí běn ] loss, to sustain losses |
| ⇒ 賣本事 | [ maì běn shì ] to flaunt a skill, to give display to one's ability, to show off a feat, to vaunt one's tricks |
| ⇒ 賬本 | [ zhàng běn ] account book |
| ⇒ 赫本 | [ hè běn ] Hepburn (name) |
| ⇒ 超文本 | [ chaō wén běn ] hypertext |
| ⇒ 超文本傳輸協定 | [ chaō wén běn chuán shū xié dìng ] hypertext transfer protocol, HTTP |
| ⇒ 超文本傳送協議 | [ chaō wén běn chuán sòng xié yì ] hypertext transfer protocol (HTTP) |
| ⇒ 超文本標記語言 | [ chaō wén běn jì yǔ yán ] hypertext markup language, HTML |
| ⇒ 趙本山 | [ zhaò běn shān ] Zhao Benshan (1958-), universally known PRC TV comedian |
| ⇒ 足本 | [ zú běn ] unabridged, complete book |
| ⇒ 身體是革命的本錢 | [ 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) |
| ⇒ 追本溯源 | [ zhuī běn sù yuán ] to trace sth back to its origin |
| ⇒ 追本窮源 | [ zhuī běn qióng yuán ] see 追本溯源[zhui1 ben3 su4 yuan2] |
| ⇒ 連本帶利 | [ lián běn daì lì ] both principal and interest, capital plus profit |
| ⇒ 選本 | [ xuǎn běn ] anthology, selected works |
| ⇒ 還本 | [ huán běn ] to repay capital |
| ⇒ 邊際成本 | [ biān jì chéng běn ] marginal cost |
| ⇒ 里斯本 | [ lǐ sī běn ] Lisbon, capital of Portugal |
| ⇒ 金匯兌本位制 | [ jīn huì duì běn weì zhì ] gold exchange standard (economics) |
| ⇒ 金本位 | [ jīn běn weì ] gold standard |
| ⇒ 銀本位 | [ yín běn weì ] Silver Standard (monetary standard) |
| ⇒ 銀本位制 | [ yín běn weì zhì ] Silver Standard (monetary standard) |
| ⇒ 開本 | [ 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] |
| ⇒ 院本 | [ yuàn běn ] script for opera (esp. in Yuan times) |
| ⇒ 電影劇本 | [ diàn yǐng jù běn ] screenplay |
| ⇒ 香港基本法 | [ xiāng gǎng jī běn fǎ ] Hong Kong Basic Law (in effect since the resumption of Chinese sovereignty in 1997) |
| ⇒ 高本漢 | [ gaō běn hàn ] Bernhard Karlgren (1889-1978), distinguished Swedish linguist and sinologist |
