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Frequency data: Cai & Brysbaert, SUBTLEX-CH (2010), Creative Commons Attribution. The data includes word forms with at least 10 occurrences in an older subtitle sample. It does not provide current frequency or HSK levels. Absence from the sample does not establish that a word is rare. Names, variants and restricted readings identified in the source appear after general-use entries within the same match type.

本期běn qī

the current period / this term (usually in finance)

书本shū běn

book (chiefly used to refer to a plurality of books or books in general)

资本zī běn

capital (economics)

标本biāo běn

specimen / sample / the root cause and symptoms of a disease

记事本jì shì běn

notebook / paper notepad / laptop computer

资本主义zī běn zhǔ yì

capitalism

大本营dà běn yíng

headquarters / base camp

课本kè běn

textbook / CL:本[běn]

文本wén běn

a text (article, script, contract etc) / version of a text (copy, translation, abridged version etc) / (computing) text

日记本rì jì běn

diary (book)

资本家zī běn jiā

capitalist

一本正经yī běn zhèng jīng

(idiom) in deadly earnest / deadpan

脚本jiǎo běn

script / screenplay / scenario / libretto / (computing) script

老本lǎo běn

capital / assets / savings / nest egg / (fig.) reputation / laurels (to rest upon) / old edition of a book / (tree) trunk

复本fù běn

copy

电话本diàn huà běn

personal address book

变本加厉biàn běn jiā lì

lit. change to more severe (idiom) / to become more intense (esp. of shortcoming) / to aggravate / to intensify

基本功jī běn gōng

basic skills / fundamentals

抄本chāo běn

handwritten copy

原原本本yuán yuán běn běn

from beginning to end / in its entirety / in accord with fact / literal

血本xuè běn

hard-earned capital

照本宣科zhào běn xuān kē

a wooden word-by-word reading

亏本kuī běn

to make a loss

本位běn wèi

(economics) standard / benchmark (as in 金本位[jīn běn wèi] "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[xué xiào běn wèi] "school-centered approach")

本位主义běn wèi zhǔ yì

selfish departmentalism / departmental selfishness

本位制běn wèi zhì

monetary standard

本位号běn wèi hào

(music notation) natural sign, ♮

本位货币běn wèi huò bì

local currency / our own currency / abbr. to 本幣|本币

本位音běn wèi yīn

(music) natural note

本俸běn fèng

basic salary

本初子午线běn chū zǐ wǔ xiàn

the first meridian / the prime meridian

本利běn lì

principal and interest / capital and profit

本名běn míng

original name / real name / (of foreigners) first name / given name

本命年běn mìng nián

year of one's birth sign, according to the cycle of 12 animals of the earthly branches 地支[dì zhī]

本固枝荣běn gù zhī róng

when the root is firm, the branches flourish

本国人běn guó rén

natives of one's own country

本土化běn tǔ huà

to localize / localization

本土派běn tǔ pài

local faction / pro-localization faction (in Taiwanese politics)

本地人běn dì rén

native person (of a country)

本地化běn dì huà

localization / adaptation (to foreign environment)

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