本

HSK 1#222 by frequencyradical 木

běn["r","q","d","n"]

this; the current; classifier for books, periodicals, files etc; original; inherent; originally; root; stem; origin; source

Examples

拿本书读！

Take a book and read it.

看这本书。

Read this book.

Part of the HSK 1 word list.

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Definitions adapted from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0, modified). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Frequency ranks from the BCC corpus. Full credits on the Attributions page.