book; origin; main
Builds 82 distinct compound words — ranked #21 of 100 for productivity.
- 音 on
- ホン
- 訓 kun
- もと
Originally the root of a tree, hence origin and main — 本当 truth, 基本 basics. And a book, because books were the main thing.
The ten most common compounds built on 本. Tap any word that leads to another mapped character to follow it.
Where 本 leads
Other characters from the top 100 that share a word with 本. Each one opens its own map.
Words built on 本
Counts from the Tanaka Corpus index via Tatoeba, 1,178,504 words of segmented Japanese. Tatoeba sentences are contributed by learners and teachers, so frequencies reflect textbook Japanese rather than a general corpus. Compound readings are generated — from the corpus where it records one, otherwise from a tokenizer — and are omitted rather than guessed where neither resolves the word. Character meanings and on/kun readings are written by hand.