Japanese word
本当
ほんとう
In your course · Chapter 11
- Part of speech
- noun
- Level
- A2
- Frequency
- No. 170 in the course corpus
Meanings
- true; real
- truth
- reality
- actuality
- fact
- proper
- right
- correct
- official
- genuine
- authentic
- real
- natural
- veritable
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
- 当
- On reading:
- トウ
- Kun reading:
- あ.たり、あ.たる、あ.て、あ.てる、まさ.に、まさ.にべし
- Meanings:
- hit, right, appropriate, himself
Source: KANJIDIC2 (CC BY-SA 4.0 (EDRDG Licence))