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běn

Meaning

  • root · stem · origin · source
  • one's own · this · the current (year and so on)
  • original
  • inherent
  • originally · initially
  • capital · principal
  • classifier for books, periodicals, files and so on

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Example sentences

  • 这是本汉语书。

    這是本漢語書。

    zhè shì běn hàn yǔ shū。

    This is a book written in Chinese.

  • 你本应该这样做的。

    你本應該這樣做的。

    nǐ běn yīng gāi zhè yàng zuò de。

    You should have done that.

  • 我本来想走的,但后来忘了。

    我本來想走的,但後來忘了。

    wǒ běn lái xiǎng zǒu de, dàn hòu lái wàng le。

    I originally intended to leave, but then I forgot.

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