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Talking Chinese English Dictionary

Talking Chinese<->English dictionary with pinyin, English definition, pronunciation, variants, stroke animation, stroke order image, and sample sentences.
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IDChineseTrad.PinyinPlainPYEnglish Definition
IDChineseTrad.PinyinPlainPYEnglish Definition
1 běnben3root; stem; origin; source; this; the current; original; inherent; originally; classifier for books, periodicals, files etc
2本身 本身 běn shēnben3 shen1itself; in itself; per se
3本质 本質 běn zhìben3 zhi4essence; nature; innate character; intrinsic quality
4本来 本來 běn láiben3 lai2original; originally; at first; it goes without saying; of course
5本人 本人 běn rénben3 ren2the person himself; I (humble form used in speeches); oneself; myself; in person; personal
6本领 本領 běn lǐngben3 ling3skill; ability; capability; Classifiers:
7本市 本市 běn shìben3 shi4(loanword) pence; penny; source material; original story; this city; our city
8本能 本能 běn néngben3 neng2instinct
9本质上 本質上 běn zhì shàngben3 zhi4 shang4essentially; inherent
10本性 本性 běn xìngben3 xing4natural instincts; nature; inherent quality
11本地 本地 běn ben3 di4local; this locality
12本事 本事 běn shiben3 shi5ability; skill
13本体 本體 běn ben3 ti3main part; torso; the thing in itself; noumenon (object of purely intellectual perception according to Kant)
14本草 本草 běn cǎoben3 cao3a book on Chinese (herbal) medicine; Chinese materia medica
15本子 本子 běn ziben3 zi5book; notebook; Japanese-style self-published comic (esp. an erotic one), aka "dōjinshi"; Classifiers: ; edition
16本科 本科 běn ben3 ke1undergraduate course; undergraduate (attributive)
17本位 本位 běn wèiben3 wei4standard; one's own department or unit
18本文 本文 běn wénben3 wen2this text; article; the main body of a book
19本月 本月 běn yuèben3 yue4this month; the current month
20本着 本著 běn zheben3 zhe5based on...; in conformance with..; taking as one's main principle
21本朝 本朝 běn cháoben3 chao2the current dynasty
22本草纲目 本草綱目 běn cǎo gāng Ben3 cao3 Gang1 mu4Compendium of Medical Herbs 1596, compiled by Li Shizhen 李时珍
23本罪 本罪 běn zuìben3 zui4actual sin (Christian notion, as opposed to original sin 原罪 )
24本本 本本 běn běnben3 ben3notebook computer (diminutive); laptop
25本底计数 本底計數 běn shùben3 di3 ji4 shu4background count

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