本子
běn zi
Pinyin
Definition
本子
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- book
- notebook
- edition
- CL:本[běn]
Character Decomposition
Related Words (20)
- 1 son
- 1 basic
- 2 fundamental
- 3 main
- 4 elementary
- 1 woman
- 2 female
- 1 wife and children
- 1 son
- 2 child
- 3 seed
- 4 egg
- 5 small thing
- 6 1st earthly branch: 11 p.m.-1 a.m., midnight, 11th solar month (7th December to 5th January), year of the Rat
- 7 Viscount, fourth of five orders of nobility 五等爵位[wǔ děng jué wèi]
- 8 ancient Chinese compass point: 0° (north)
Idioms (20)
一本万利
- 1 small capital, huge profit (idiom); to put in a little and get a lot out
一瓶子不响,半瓶子晃荡
- 1 lit. a full bottle makes no sound; a half-filled bottle sloshes (idiom)
- 2 fig. empty vessels make the most noise
三句话不离本行
- 1 to talk shop all the time (idiom)
不入虎穴,焉得虎子
- 1 How do you catch the tiger cub without entering the tiger's lair? (idiom); Nothing ventured, nothing gained.
不见兔子不撒鹰
- 1 you don't release the hawk until you've seen the hare (idiom)
- 2 one doesn't act without some incentive
Sample Sentences
我要买笔和本子。
I want to buy pens and notebooks.
几个本子?
How many notebooks?
三个本子。
Three notebooks.
行,我找个本子记下来。
OK. I'll look for a notebook and write it down.