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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.

本地管理界面běn dì guǎn lǐ jiè miàn

LMI / local management interface (telecommunications)

本埠běn bù

this city / this town

本报běn bào

this newspaper

本垒běn lěi

(baseball) home base / home plate

本垒打běn lěi dǎ

home run (baseball)

本士běn shì

(loanword) pence / penny

本字běn zì

original form of a Chinese character

本家běn jiā

a member of the same clan / a distant relative with the same family name

本尊běn zūn

(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[fēn shēn]) / (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)

本小利微běn xiǎo lì wēi

(of a small business) to have very little capital and very modest profits

本就běn jiù

by nature / fundamentally / inherently

本岛běn dǎo

main island

本币běn bì

local currency / our own currency / abbr. for 本位貨幣|本位货币

本帮菜běn bāng cài

Shanghainese food

本年度běn nián dù

this year / the current year

本底běn dǐ

background

本底计数běn dǐ jì shù

background count

本底调查běn dǐ diào chá

background investigation

本底辐射běn dǐ fú shè

background radiation

本影běn yǐng

umbra

本征值běn zhēng zhí

(math.) eigenvalue

本征向量běn zhēng xiàng liàng

(math.) eigenvector

本性难移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)

本息běn xī

principal and interest (on a loan)

本应běn yīng

should have / ought to have

本我běn wǒ

id / the self

本文běn wén

this text / article / the main body of a book

本族语běn zú yǔ

native language / mother tongue

本日běn rì

today

本星期běn xīng qī

this week

本朝běn cháo

the current dynasty

本末běn mò

the whole course of an event from beginning to end / ins and outs / the fundamental and the incidental

本末倒置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

本本běn běn

notebook computer (diminutive) / laptop

本本主义běn běn zhǔ yì

book worship / bookishness

本本分分běn běn fèn fèn

decorous / respectable

本业běn yè

business in which a company has traditionally engaged (e.g. before diversifying) / original business / core business / (literary) agriculture

本源běn yuán

origin / source

本益比běn yì bǐ

P⁄E ratio (price-to-earnings ratio)

本相běn xiàng

original form

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