本

root, origin; counts books

No. 76 most used

How it's built

• 木tree
• 一one

A way to remember it

A line (一) marks the root of a tree (木): where it starts.

Words

• 根本

  gēn běn

  fundamental; basic; root
• 本来

  běn lái

  original; originally; at first
• 日本

  rì běn

  Japan
• 基本

  jī běn

  basic; fundamental; main
• 原本

  yuán běn

  originally; the original; original copy; original version
• 本人

  běn rén

  I; me; myself; oneself; yourself; himself; herself; the person concerned

Sentences

• 中国比日本大得多。

  zhōng guó bǐ rì běn dà de duō

  China is much larger than Japan.
• 他不是很了解日本。

  tā bú shì hěn liǎo jiě rì běn

  He doesn't know much about Japan.
• 他在日本也很有名。

  tā zài rì běn yě hěn yǒu míng

  He is also very famous in Japan.
• 你为什么来了日本？

  nǐ wèi shén me lái le rì běn

  Why did you come to Japan?

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How often characters are written: wordfreq by Robyn Speer, CC BY-SA 4.0, with data from Google Books Ngrams and SUBTLEX by Marc Brysbaert and others. Meanings: CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0. Sentences: Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR. How often they're said: FrequencyWords and OPUS, from OpenSubtitles.