Reading
root, origin, source; basis
밑 본mit bon
Every hanja has a two-part name in Korean: what it means, then how it's read. Here 밑 (mit) is the Korean for root, and 본 (bon) is the reading. Say 밑 본 out loud and a Korean speaker knows which character you mean.
- Strokes
- 5
- Radical
- ⽊ 75
- Beyond radical
- 1
- Mandarin
- běn
- Japanese on
- hon
- Japanese kun
- moto
Vocabulary
Words that use 本
Tap one to see what it means and how it's built. Every character in these words has its own page here.
this thing
Character by character root + numerary adjunct for article
Character data from the Unicode Unihan database. Korean reading, 훈음 and vocabulary from the libhangul hanja dictionary by Choe Hwanjin (BSD 3-Clause). English translations of whole words from kengdic (MPL 2.0 / LGPL 2.0+), a community dictionary — the occasional entry is wrong.Levels are derived, not official — they are not 한자능력검정시험 급수. The ordering combines Unihan’s kGradeLevel (the school year a character is introduced in Hong Kong, present on 1,539 of the 1,800), total stroke count, and how many national standards treat the character as core.