Japanese word
本
ほん
In your course · Chapter 4
- Part of speech
- noun
- Level
- A1
- Frequency
- No. 76 in the course corpus
Meanings
- book
- volume
- script
- this
- present
- current
- ... in question
- ... at issue
- main
- head
- principal
- real
- genuine
- regular
- proper
- counter for long, thin objects (sticks, tubes, strings, bottles, pillars, rivers, rail lines, etc.)
- counter for films, TV shows, etc.
- counter for telephone calls, letters, and emails
- counter for goals, home runs, etc.
- counter for rounds or points (in judo, kendo, etc.)
Source: Tonada course · JMdict (CC BY-SA 4.0 (EDRDG Licence))
Kanji
- 本
- On reading:
- ホン
- Kun reading:
- もと
- Meanings:
- book, present, main, origin, true, real, counter for long cylindrical things
Source: KANJIDIC2 (CC BY-SA 4.0 (EDRDG Licence))
Examples
この本はいくらですか
How much is this book?
それは私の本だ
That is my book.
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