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textbook / CL:
HSK 1
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  *本* | 本* | *本
(bound form) root; stem / (bound form) origin; source / (bound form) one's own; this / (bound form) this; the current (year etc) / (bound form) original / (bound form) inherent / originally; initially / capital; principal / classifier for books, periodicals, files etc
HSK 1
book / notebook / Japanese-style self-published comic (esp. an erotic one), aka "dōjinshi" / CL: / edition
HSK 1
notebook (stationery) (CL:) / (computing) laptop; notebook (abbr. for 筆記本電腦|笔记本电脑)
HSK 2
basic / fundamental / main / elementary
HSK 3
basically / on the whole
HSK 3
ability / skill
HSK 3
original / originally / at first / it goes without saying / of course
HSK 3
skill / ability / capability / CL: 項|项, 個|个
HSK 3
fundamental / basic / root / simply / absolutely (not) / (not) at all / CL: 個|个
HSK 3
undergraduate course / undergraduate (attributive)
HSK 4
capital (economics)
HSK 5
I; me; myself / oneself; yourself; himself; herself; the person concerned
HSK 5
script; screenplay; scenario; libretto
HSK 5
(manufacturing, production etc) costs
HSK 5
one's native country / native / local / metropolitan territory
HSK 6
essence / nature / innate character / intrinsic quality
HSK 6
local / this locality
HSK 6
itself / in itself / per se
HSK 6
the current period / this term (usually in finance)
HSK 6
sample; specimen
HSK 7-9
originally / original
HSK 7-9
instinct
HSK 7-9
(to play) one's part / one's role / one's duty / (to stay within) one's bounds / dutiful / keeping to one's role
HSK 7-9
based on... / in conformance with.. / taking as one's main principle
HSK 7-9
basic skills / fundamentals
HSK 7-9
to make a loss
HSK 7-9
inherent qualities / natural qualities / distinctive character / true qualities
HSK 7-9
specimen; sample / the root cause and symptoms of a disease
HSK 7-9
capitalism
HSK 7-9
original idea / real intention / etymon
HSK 7-9
capital / (fig.) asset; advantage; the means (to do sth)
HSK 7-9
natural instincts / nature / inherent quality
HSK 7-9
Sea of Japan
Japan
a book on Chinese (herbal) medicine / Chinese materia medica
undergraduate student
origin / source
principal and interest (on a loan)
model (example worthy of being imitated) / template
Osama bin Laden (1957-2011), leader of Al Qaeda
basic law (constitutional document)
script; screenplay; scenario; libretto / (computing) script
main part / torso / the thing in itself / noumenon (object of purely intellectual perception according to Kant)
book (chiefly used to refer to a plurality of books or books in general)
copy (of a document) / book with model calligraphy for copying
Melbourne, Australia
version / edition / release
reader / an instructional book
translation (translated version of a text)
main island
this month / the current month
original meaning / literal sense
source material / original story
Honda (Japanese name)
whole edition / whole performance (of Chinese opera)
a text (article, script, contract etc) / version of a text (copy, translation, abridged version etc) / (computing) text
copy / duplicate / transcript / (in online games) instance
Copenhagen or København, capital of Denmark
P⁄E ratio (price-to-earnings ratio)
headquarters / head office
Kumamoto city and prefecture in west Kyūshū 九州, Japan
(a return) equal to the capital / 100 percent profit
one's own country
decorous / respectable
(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) / (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)
laptop / notebook (computer) / CL: 臺|台,
single volume edition / offprint
revised edition (of a book)
notebook computer (diminutive) / laptop
capital stock / investment
capital / principal
cashier's check / promissory note
to repay capital
current / this year
(idiom) in deadly earnest; deadpan
this year / the current year
capital market
book format, similar to in-4°, in-8° etc (a 16-kai format 16開|16 is roughly A4) (abbr. to 開|开)
headquarters / base camp
here / this place
diary (book)
herbaceous plant
one's job
standard / one's own department or unit
native person (of a country)
(finance) dollar cost averaging
original form of a Chinese character
exercise book / workbook / CL:
Song and Yuan literary form based on vernacular folk stories
original (of a document) / reserved copy (of a library book)
it is easier to change mountains and rivers than to alter one's character (idiom) / you can't change who you are / Can the leopard change his spots?
one's line / one's own profession
household register / household registration booklet / residence certificate
natural color
year of one's birth sign, according to the cycle of 12 animals of the earthly branches 地支
laptop / notebook (computer)
printed book; printed copy
notebook / paper notepad / laptop computer

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