běn
roots or stems of plants
origin
source
this
the current
root
foundation
basis
classifier for books, periodicals, files etc
originally
jī běn
basic
fundamental
main
elementary
běn wén
this text
article
the main body of a book
běn rén
the person himself
I (humble form used in speeches)
oneself
myself
in person
personal
běn yuè
this month
the current month
Rì běn rén
Japanese person or people
gēn běn
fundamental
basic
root
simply
absolutely (not)
(not) at all
CL:個|个[ge4]
běn lái
original
originally
at first
it goes without saying
of course
chéng běn
(manufacturing, production etc) costs
Gē běn hā gēn
Copenhagen or København, capital of Denmark
kāi běn
book format, similar to in-4°, in-8° etc (a 16开 format is roughly A4)
abbr. to 開|开[kai1]
Běn zhōu
Honshū, the main island of Japan
quán běn
whole edition
whole performance (of Chinese opera)
biāo běn
specimen
sample
the root cause and symptoms of a disease
běn yì
original idea
real intention
etymon
bǐ jì běn diàn nǎo
laptop
notebook (computer)
CL:臺|台[tai2],部[bu4]
běn wèi
standard
one's own department or unit
Xióng běn
Kumamoto city and prefecture in west Kyūshū 九州, Japan
běn tǐ
main part
torso
the thing in itself
noumenon (object of purely intellectual perception according to Kant)
běn nián dù
this year
the current year
zhì běn
to take radical measures
to get to the root (of a problem etc)
jī běn gōng
basic skills
fundamentals
dú běn
reader
an instructional book
bǐ jì běn
notebook (stationery)
CL:本[ben3]
notebook (computing)
běn lǐng
skill
ability
capability
CL:項|项[xiang4],個|个[ge4]
duì běn
(a return) equal to the capital
100 percent profit
Shān běn
Yamamoto (Japanese surname)
běn zhì
essence
nature
innate character
intrinsic quality
běn jì
biographic sketch of an emperor
Lǐ sī běn
Lisbon, capital of Portugal
běn xìng
natural instincts
nature
inherent quality
lán běn
blueprint
source material on which later works (books, movies etc) are based
běn tǔ
one's native country
native
local
metropolitan territory
dān xíng běn
single volume edition
offprint
běn kē
undergraduate course
undergraduate (attributive)
běn jiā
a member of the same clan
a distant relative with the same family name
běn yì
original meaning
literal sense
běn sè
inherent qualities
natural qualities
distinctive character
true qualities
xuè běn
hard-earned savings
capital (arising from one's blood and sweat)
yī běn zhèng jīng
in deadly earnest
deadpan
běn zi
book
notebook
edition
CL:本[ben3]
běn qián
capital
(fig.) asset
advantage
the means (to do sth)
běn shì
source material
original story
běn xì
principal and interest (on a loan)
fù běn
copy
duplicate
transcript
Běn xī
Benxi prefecture level city in Liaoning province 遼寧省|辽宁省 in northeast China
shàn běn
old book
good book
reliable book
rare book
běn cǎo
a book on Chinese (herbal) medicine
Chinese materia medica
jù běn
script for play, opera, movie etc
screenplay
scenario
běn tí
the subject under discussion
the point at issue
biàn běn jiā lì
lit. change to more severe (idiom); to become more intense (esp. of shortcoming)
to aggravate
to intensify
běn běn
notebook computer (diminutive)
laptop
běn bì
local currency
our own currency
abbr. for 本位貨幣|本位货币
jī běn yuán zé
fundamental doctrine
guiding principle
raison d'être
dà xué běn kē
university undergraduate course
Zhào Běn shān
Zhao Benshan (1958-), universally known PRC TV comedian
gǎo běn
manuscript (of a book etc)
sketch (of a design etc)
běn zhe
based on...
in conformance with..
taking as one's main principle
lì shǐ bǎn běn
historical edition
revision history (of a web page)
běn cǎo gāng mù
Compendium of medical herbs 1596, compiled by Lǐ Shízhēn 李時珍|李时珍
Rì běn háng kōng
Japanese airline (JAL, Japanese: Nihonkoukuu)
jī běn wán chéng
fundamentally complete
basically finished
zhì biāo bù zhì běn
to treat the symptoms but not the root cause
jì shì běn
notebook
paper notepad
laptop computer
Rì běn guǐ zi
Japanese devil (common term of abuse in wartime China and in subsequent writing)
běn yīng
should have
ought to have
chuán běn
edition (of a book) currently in circulation
jī běn yāo qiú
a basic requirement
prerequisites
běn qī
the current period
this term (usually in finance)
běn lái miàn mù
true colors
true features
Rì běn hǎi
Sea of Japan
Korean: East sea 東海|东海[Dōng hǎi]
Běn xī shì
Benxi prefecture level city in Liaoning province 遼寧省|辽宁省 in northeast China
běn dì huà
localization
adaptation (to foreign environment)
běn fèn
(to play) one's part
one's role
one's duty
(to stay within) one's bounds
dutiful
keeping to one's role
běn dì rén
native person (of a country)
běn háng
one's line
one's own profession
běn mò dào zhì
lit. to invert root and branch (idiom); fig. confusing cause and effect
to stress the incidental over the fundamental
to put the cart before the horse
xiǎo běn
small capital
on a shoestring
jī běn dān wèi
basic unit
fundamental building block
xuè běn wú guī
to lose one's life savings (e.g. after a bankruptcy)
no return for one's hard-earned savings
hé dìng běn
bound volume
one-volume edition
Qiáo běn
Hashimoto (Japanese surname and place name)
Zī běn lùn
Das Kapital (1867) by Karl Marx 卡爾·馬克思|卡尔·马克思[Ka3 er3 · Ma3 ke4 si1]
hé běn kē
Graminae or Poaceae, the grass family
Běn · Lā dēng
Osama bin Laden (1957-), leader of Al Qaeda
Gāng běn
Okamoto (Japanese surname)
Běn Lā dēng
(Osama) bin Laden (1957-2011), leader of Al Qaeda
běn xiāng
home village
one's native place
yī běn wàn lì
small capital, huge profit (idiom); to put in a little and get a lot out
Rì běn Gòng tóng shè
Kyōdō, Japanese news agency
Shén nóng běn cǎo jīng
Shennong's compendium of materia medica, a Han dynasty pharmacological compendium, 3 scrolls
liàn xí běn
exercise book
workbook
CL:本[ben3]
zhào běn xuān kē
a wooden word-by-word reading
běn yì bǐ
P⁄ E ratio (price-to-earnings ratio)
běn mò
the whole course of an event from beginning to end
ins and outs
the fundamental and the incidental
huà běn
Song and Yuan literary form based on vernacular folk stories
jī běn xū yào
basic necessity
fundamental need
Shān běn Wǔ shí liù
YAMAMOTO Isoroku (1884-1943), Japanese admiral
yuàn běn
script for opera (esp. in Yuan times)
běn xìng nán yí
It is hard to change one's essential nature (idiom). You can't change who you are.
Can the leopard change his spots? (Jeremiah 13:23)
Shū běn huá
Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860), German post-Kantian philosopher
běn wèi zhǔ yì
selfish departmentalism
departmental selfishness
Běn yīn fāng
Honinbo, major school of Go in Japan (1612-1940)
title held by the winner of the Honinbo Go tournament (1941-)
běn lěi
home base
home plate (in baseball)
rén zhī chū , xìng běn shàn
man at birth is fundamentally good in nature
the first two lines of Three character classic 三字經|三字经[Sān zì jīng]
běn zì
original form of a Chinese character
shāng yè bǎn běn
commercial version (of software)
Rì běn Jīng jì Xīn wén
Nikkei Shimbun, Japanese equivalent of Financial Times
Běn xī xiàn
Benxi Manchu autonomous county in Benxi 本溪, Liaoning
lì shǐ chéng běn
historic cost (accounting)
běn zuì
actual sin (Christian notion, as opposed to original sin 原罪)
jī běn lì zǐ
elementary particle (particle physics)
zhù rén wéi kuài lè zhī běn
pleasure from helping others
zēng dìng běn
revised and enlarged edition
jiā jiā yǒu běn nán niàn de jīng
Every family goes through its problems. (idiom)
lián běn dài lì
both principal and interest
capital plus profit
Xióng běn xiàn
Kumamoto prefecture, Kyūshū, Japan
jiāng shān yì gǎi , běn xìng nán yí
The rivers and mountains may change, but not one's essential nature (idiom). You can't change who you are.
Can the leopard change his spots? (Jeremiah 13:23)
jiāng shān yì gǎi běn xìng nán yí
rivers and mountains are easy to change, man's character much harder
mó shì biāo běn
type specimen (used to define a species)
bǐ jì běn jì suàn jī
laptop
notebook (computer)
gǎo běn
Ligusticum levisticum (Chinese lovage root)
ligusticum root
cán běn
extant fragment (of book)
Běn dǔ · shí liù shì
Benedict XVI (Pope)
Joseph Alois Ratzinger (1927-), Pope from 2005
Běn xī Mǎn zú zì zhì xiàn
Benxi Manchu autonomous county in Benxi 本溪, Liaoning
gēn běn fǎ
fundamental law
body of basic laws
běn zú yǔ
native language
mother tongue
Běn jié míng · Fù lán kè lín
Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790), American writer, scientist, inventor, politician and diplomat
běn chū zǐ wǔ xiàn
the first meridian
the prime meridian
běn zhēng zhí
eigenvalue (math.)
also written 特徵值|特征值
Běn cí
Benz (name)
Karl Benz (1844-1929), motor car pioneer
chāo wén běn biāo jì yǔ yán
hypertext markup language
HTML
Rì běn Fàng sòng Xié huì
NHK (Nihon Hōsō Kyōkai), Japanese national broadcasting company
běn tǔ pài
local faction
pro-localization faction (in Taiwanese politics)
yín běn wèi
Silver Standard (monetary standard)
Xīn xiū běn cǎo
Tang dynasty compendium of herbal medicine
jī běn lì lǜ
base rate (e.g. interest rate set by central bank)
Běn nà bǐ
see 本那比市[Ben3 na4 bi3 shi4]
Běn yīn fāng Xiù cè
Honinbo Shusaku (1829-1862), Japanese Go player
lāo běn
to get one's money back (esp. gambling)
to recoup one's losings
běn wèi huò bì
local currency
our own currency
abbr. to 本幣|本币
Qiáo běn Lóng tài láng
HASHIMOTO Ryūtarō (1937-2006), Japanese politician, prime minister 1996-1998
yín běn wèi zhì
Silver Standard (monetary standard)
Rì běn shū jì
Nihonshoki or Chronicles of Japan (c. 720) book of mythology and history
bān běn
to recoup losses (in gambling)
fán běn
detailed edition
unexpurgated version
cí bēi wéi běn
mercy as the guiding principle (idiom); the Buddhist teaching that nothing is valid except compassion
zhèng cháng chéng běn
normal cost (accountancy)
Gāo Běn hàn
Bernhard Karlgren (1889-1978), distinguished Swedish linguist and sinologist
běn ní dí
Benedictus (section of Catholic mass)
Rì běn Diàn bào Diàn huà Gōng sī
Nippon Telegraph and Telephone
NTT
wēi jī fēn jī běn dìng lǐ
fundamental theorem of calculus
Rì běn guó zhì
A record of Japan by Huan Zunxian 黃遵憲|黄遵宪, an extended analysis of Meiji Japan
dài shù jī běn dìng lǐ
fundamental theorem of algebra
chāo wén běn chuán sòng xié yì
hypertext transfer protocol (HTTP)
běn zhēng xiàng liàng
eigenvector (math.)
also written 特徵向量|特征向量
běn gù zhī róng
when the root is firm, the branches flourish
bào běn fǎn shǐ
ensure that you pay debts of gratitude (idiom)
jī běn duō wén zhǒng píng miàn
basic multilingual plane (BMP)
zhuī běn qióng yuán
to trace sth back to its origin
yuán yuán běn běn
variant of 原原本本[yuan2 yuan2 ben3 ben3]
Rì běn Yuán zǐ Néng Yán jiū suǒ
Japan Atomic Energy Research Institute
Běn nà bǐ shì
Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada
dì yī jī běn xíng shì
(math.) first fundamental form
yǐ běn rén míng
under one's own name
named after oneself
Dù běn nèi
Dubonnet (name)
Dubonnet (red vermouth aperitif wine)
qín jiǎn wéi fú wù zhī běn
hardwork and thriftiness are the foundations of service (idiom)
dài shù xué jī běn dìng lǐ
fundamental theorem of algebra (every polynomial has a complex root)
Yuē hàn · Běn rén
John Bunyan (1628-1688), English puritan writer, author of Pilgrim's Progress 天路歷程|天路历程
chāo wén běn chuán shū xié dìng
hypertext transfer protocol
HTTP
běn dì guǎn lǐ jiè miàn
LMI
local management interface (telecommunications)
jiāo liáng běn
to hand in one's ration cards
to die
bān běn r
to recoup losses (in gambling)
mài běn shì
to flaunt a skill
to give display to one's ability
to show off a feat
to vaunt one's tricks
dà běn Niè pán jīng
the great Nirvana sutra: every living thing has Buddha nature.
shì wù de běn zhì chóng yú wài zài
essence is more important than external appearance
a rose by any other name would smell as sweet
lín shí de běn dì guǎn lǐ jiē kǒu
Interim Local Management Interface
ILMI
běn yè
business in which a company has traditionally engaged (e.g. before diversifying)
original business
core business
(literary) agriculture
běn shěng rén
people of this province
(in Taiwan) Han Chinese people other than those who moved to Taiwan from mainland China after 1945 and their descendants
Běn dǔ · shí liù shì
Pope Benedict XVI
Joseph Alois Ratzinger (1927-), pope 2005-2013
Běn cǎo Gāng mù
Compendium of Medical Herbs 1596, compiled by Li Shizhen 李時珍|李时珍[Li3 Shi2 zhen1]
běn xī
principal and interest (on a loan)
běn guó rén
natives of one's own country
běn mìng nián
year of one's birth sign, according to the cycle of 12 animals of the earthly branches 地支[di4 zhi1]
běn lì
principal and interest
capital and profit
Běn jié míng · Fù lán kè lín
Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790), American writer, scientist, inventor, politician and diplomat
Shān běn
Sugimoto (Japanese surname)
Sōng běn
Matsumoto (Japanese surname and place name)
rèn jiǎo zī běn
subscribed capital (finance)
Téng běn
Fujimoto (Japanese surname)
lǎo běn
capital
assets
savings
nest egg
(fig.) reputation
laurels (to rest upon)
old edition of a book
(tree) trunk
suō yìn běn
compact edition (of a dictionary etc)
Yuē hàn · Běn rén
John Bunyan (1628-1688), English puritan writer, author of Pilgrim's Progress 天路歷程|天路历程
jiǎn běn
concise edition
abridged edition
fàn běn
model (example worthy of being imitated)
template
Shén nóng Běn cǎo Jīng
Shennong's Compendium of Materia Medica, a Han dynasty pharmacological compendium, 3 scrolls
tián gé běn
exercise book for practicing Chinese character handwriting (each page being a grid of blank cells divided into quadrants, like the character 田)
yuán yuán běn běn
variant of 原原本本[yuan2 yuan2 ben3 ben3]
jiāng shān yì gǎi , běn xìng nán yí
it is easier to change mountains and rivers than to alter one's character (idiom)
you can't change who you are
Can the leopard change his spots?
zhèng běn
original (of a document)
reserved copy (of a library book)
jīn huì duì běn wèi zhì
gold exchange standard (economics)
běn wèi hào
(music notation) natural sign, ♮
xiǎo Rì běn r
erhua variant of 小日本[xiao3 Ri4 ben3]
xiǎo Rì běn
(derog.) Japanese person
Jap
shí jiǎo zī běn
paid-in capital
contributed capital (finance)
shí shōu zī běn
paid-in capital
contributed capital (finance)
Gōng běn
Miyamoto (Japanese surname)
gòu běn
to break even
to get one's money's worth
Mò bā běn
Mbabane, capital of Swaziland (Tw)
jī běn diǎn
basis point (finance), abbr. to 基點|基点[ji1 dian3]
jī běn lì lǜ
base rate (e.g. interest rate set by central bank)
Bǎn běn
Sakamoto (Japanese surname)
Sì xiàng Jī běn Yuán zé
the Four Cardinal Principles by Deng Xiaoping 鄧小平|邓小平[Deng4 Xiao3 ping2] in 1979: to uphold the socialist road, proletariat's dictatorship, CPC's leadership, and Maoism and Marxism-Leninism
yuán yuán běn běn
from beginning to end
in its entirety
in accord with fact
literal
xiū dìng běn
revised edition (of a book)
rén zhī chū , xìng běn shàn
man at birth is fundamentally good in nature
the first two lines of Three Character Classic 三字經|三字经[San1 zi4 Jing1]
bù xī xuè běn
to spare no effort
to devote all one's energies
yǐng běn
copy (of a document)
book with model calligraphy for copying
Běn · Lā dēng
Osama bin Laden (1957-2011), leader of Al Qaeda
yǒu běn qián
to be in a position to (take on a challenge, etc)
Rì běn jí líng
(bird species of China) Japanese wagtail (Motacilla grandis)
Rì běn ān chún
(bird species of China) Japanese quail (Coturnix japonica)
Rì běn gē qú
(bird species of China) Japanese robin (Larvivora akahige)
Rì běn shù yīng
(bird species of China) Japanese bush warbler (Cettia diphone)
Rì běn liǔ yīng
(bird species of China) Japanese leaf warbler (Phylloscopus xanthodryas)
Rì běn sōng què yīng
(bird species of China) Japanese sparrowhawk (Accipiter gularis)
Rì běn chā wěi hǎi yàn
(bird species of China) Matsudaira's storm petrel (Oceanodroma matsudairae)
shě běn zhú mò
to neglect the root and pursue the tip (idiom)
to neglect fundamentals and concentrate on details
hù kǒu běn
household register
household registration booklet
residence certificate
Kuài lè Dà běn yíng
Happy Camp (PRC TV series)
sān jù huà bù lí běn háng
to talk shop all the time (idiom)