报本反始 (報本反始)
bào běn fǎn shǐ
Pinyin
Definition
报本反始 (報本反始)
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- ensure that you pay debts of gratitude (idiom)
Character Decomposition
Related Words (20)
- 1 anyway
- 2 in any case
- 3 to come over from the enemy's side
- 1 basic
- 2 fundamental
- 3 main
- 4 elementary
- 1 Japan
- 1 root
- 2 stem
- 3 origin
- 4 source
- 5 this
- 6 the current
- 7 original
- 8 inherent
- 9 originally
- 10 classifier for books, periodicals, files etc
- 1 original
- 2 originally
- 3 at first
- 4 it goes without saying
- 5 of course
Idioms (20)
一元复始
- 1 a new year begins (idiom)
一反常态
- 1 complete change from the normal state (idiom); quite uncharacteristic
- 2 entirely outside the norm
- 3 out of character
一本万利
- 1 small capital, huge profit (idiom); to put in a little and get a lot out
三句话不离本行
- 1 to talk shop all the time (idiom)
出尔反尔
- 1 old: to reap the consequences of one's words (idiom, from Mencius); modern: to go back on one's word
- 2 to blow hot and cold
- 3 to contradict oneself
- 4 inconsistent