本
běnTraditional: 本
HSK 1
#693 of 5,000 Core 1000
Translation
measure word for books; originally, this
Stroke order
本
Examples
。
I have three books.
杂志。
This magazine is interesting.
。
I personally was not aware.
。
I bought a new book.
桌杂志。
There are three magazines on the table.
Related words
Appears in 3 words
Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 本.
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Grammar articles
- Mandarin Advanced Grammar (C1-C2 / HSK 6+): Chengyu, Classical Remnants, and Register
- Mandarin Grammar Cheatsheet: The Essentials, One Page
- Mandarin Verb Conjugation: Why It Doesn't Exist and What Replaces It
- Mandarin Intermediate Grammar (B1-B2 / HSK 4-5): Complements, Conjunctions and the Full 了 System
- Mandarin Word Order: SVO, Topic-Comment, and the 把 Construction That Reorders Everything
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