Character Details
| root; source; origin; {MW} Books, Magazines; this | Ascii: 21397 | w339 | |||||||||
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| Hanyu | Pinyin | Pronunciation | Tone | Components/Primitives | Wiktionary | Alt Sounds | |||||
| 本 | běn | ben | 3 | 木 (tree) + 一 (root line) → root | 本 link | ||||||
| Picture | Character Story | ||||||||||
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The origin of a book is paper made out of TREEs. ONE tree can make many notebooks. | ||||||||||
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| [HSK 1] - — | |||||||||||
| Examples | |||||||||||
| - There is a computer and a book on the desk/table | - --Research Pending-- | ||||||||||
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| Single Character Decomposition | |||||||||||
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| Radical | Name | Label | Domain | Component Persona | Example Characters | ||||||
| 75 - 曰 | yuē | tree | say | open‑mouth sun | 曰 曹 | ||||||
| Elements | Semantic Element | Phonetic Element | Note | ||||||||
| 木 (tree) + 一 (root line) → root | 木 (semantic) | 一 (phonetic) | phonetic from 一 | ||||||||
