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Jōyō kanji, Taught in grade 1

JLPT level: N5

10 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Stroke count: 5

Meaning: book, present, main, origin, true, real, counter for long cylindrical things

Kunyomi: もと

Onyomi: ホン

Composition: 木

本

Radical

Radical: 木

Reading: き

Meaning: tree

Strokes: 4

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Examples

Examples with audio

本(ほん)   book

本日(ほんじつ)   today

本店(ほんてん)   head office

本当に(ほんとうに)   really

基本(きほん)   basis

絵本(えほん)   picture book

日本(にほん)   Japan

日本語(にほんご)   Japanese language

三本(さんぼん)   3 (long cylindrical objects)

六本(ろっぽん)   6 (long cylindrical objects)

十本(じゅっぽん)   10 (long cylindrical objects)

山本(やまもと)   Yamamoto (surname)

Onyomi Examples

本 (ホン) book, volume, script, this, present, current, ... in question, ... at issue, main, head, principal, real, genuine, regular, proper, counter for long, cylindrical things, counter for films, TV shows, etc., counter for goals, home runs, etc., counter for telephone calls

本位 (ホンイ) standard, basis, principle

社会資本 (シャカイシホン) social capital, SOC

配本 (ハイホン) distribution of books

Kunyomi Examples

元 (もと) origin, source, beginning, basis, base, foundation, root, cause, (raw) material, ingredient, base, mix (e.g. for a cake), (soup) stock, (one's) side, capital, principal, cost price, root (of a plant), (tree) trunk, part (of a brush, chopsticks, etc.) one holds (with the hand), first three lines of a waka, counter for plants or trees, counter for falcons (in falconry)

本木 (もとき) original stock

大本 (おおもと) root, origin, source, cause, basis, foundation, Ōmoto (religion)

旗本 (はたもと) shogunal vassal, direct retainer of a shogun

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