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- (bound form) root; stem
- (bound form) origin; source
- (bound form) one's own; this
- (bound form) this; the current (year etc)
- (bound form) original
- (bound form) inherent
- originally; initially
- capital; principal
- classifier for books, periodicals, files etc
- copy; duplicate; transcript
- (gaming) dungeon; instance; private team mission
Trad. 藍本
- blueprint
- source material on which later works (books, movies etc) are based
Trad. 撈本
- to get one's money back (esp. gambling)
- to recoup one's losings
- to tackle a problem at its root; to effect a permanent solution (contrasted with 治標|治标[zhi4 biao1])
- (economics) standard; benchmark (as in 金本位[jin1 ben3 wei4] "gold standard")
- one's own department or unit
- central reference point; fundamental frame of reference (used after a noun N, indicates an N-centered outlook, as in 學校本位|学校本位[xue2 xiao4 ben3 wei4] "school-centered approach")
Trad. 開本
- 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])
- (to play) one's part
- one's role
- one's duty
- (to stay within) one's bounds
- dutiful
- keeping to one's role
- to take a relevant exam for a certificate (e.g. driving test, license etc)
- book
- notebook
- Japanese-style self-published comic (esp. an erotic one), aka "dōjinshi"
- CL:本[ben3]
- edition
- (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)
Trad. 書本
- book (chiefly used to refer to a plurality of books or books in general)
- the whole course of an event from beginning to end
- ins and outs
- the fundamental and the incidental
Trad. 本業
- business in which a company has traditionally engaged (e.g. before diversifying)
- original business
- core business
- (literary) agriculture
Trad. 本著
- based on...
- in conformance with..
- taking as one's main principle
- capital
- assets
- savings
- nest egg
- (fig.) reputation
- laurels (to rest upon)
- old edition of a book
- (tree) trunk
Trad. 本體
- main part
- torso
- the thing in itself
- noumenon (object of purely intellectual perception according to Kant)
- a text (article, script, contract etc)
- version of a text (copy, translation, abridged version etc)
- (computing) text
Trad. 山本頭
- (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]
Trad. 基本盤
- (political party's) voter base
- (musician's) fan base
- (a business's) customer base
- the funds necessary for a venture
- foundation on which sth's existence depends
- bedrock (in the figurative sense)
Trad. 基本點
- key point; crux
- (finance) basis point, abbr. to 基點|基点[ji1 dian3]
Trad. 杜本內
- Dubonnet (name)
- Dubonnet (red vermouth aperitif wine)
Trad. 高本漢
- Bernhard Karlgren (1889-1978), distinguished Swedish linguist and sinologist
- exercise book for practicing Chinese character handwriting (each page being a grid of blank cells divided into quadrants, like the character 田)
Trad. 趙本山
- Zhao Benshan (1958-), universally known PRC TV comedian
Trad. 筆記本
- notebook (stationery) (CL:本[ben3])
- (computing) laptop; notebook (abbr. for 筆記本電腦|笔记本电脑[bi3 ji4 ben3 dian4 nao3])
Trad. 試用本
- inspection copy (of a textbook etc)
- trial edition
- year of one's birth sign, according to the cycle of 12 animals of the earthly branches 地支[di4 zhi1]
- Honinbo, major school of Go in Japan (1612-1940)
- title held by the winner of the Honinbo Go tournament (1941-)
- local faction
- pro-localization faction (in Taiwanese politics)