格林尼治本初子午 线 | Gé lín ní zhì běn chū zǐ wǔ xiàn | the Greenwich meridian |
| 标本虫 | biāo běn chóng | spider beetle |
| 模式标本 | mó shì biāo běn | type specimen (used to define a species) |
| 桥本 | Qiáo běn | Japanese surname Hashimoto |
| 桥本龙太郎 | Qiáo běn Lóng tài láng | HASHIMOTO Ryūtarō (1937-2006), Japanese politician, prime minister 1996-1998 |
| 机会成本 | jī huì chéng běn | opportunity cost |
| 正常成本 | zhèng cháng chéng běn | normal cost (accountancy) |
| 历史成本 | lì shǐ chéng běn | historic cost (accounting) |
| 历史版本 | lì shǐ bǎn běn | historical edition; revision history (of a web page) |
| 残本 | cán běn | extant fragment (of book) |
| 江山易改本性难移 | jiāng shān yì gǎi běn xìng nán yí | rivers and mountains are easy to change, man's character much harder |
江山易改, 本性难移 | jiāng shān yì gǎi , běn xìng nán yí | The rivers and mountains may change, but not one's essential nature (idiom). You can't change who you are.; Can the leopard change his spots? (Jeremiah 13:23) |
| 沉没成本 | chén mò chéng běn | sunk cost (economics) |
| 治本 | zhì běn | to take radical measures; to get to the root (of a problem etc) |
| 治标不治本 | zhì biāo bù zhì běn | to treat the symptoms but not the root cause |
| 照本宣科 | zhào běn xuān kē | a wooden word-by-word reading |
| 熊本 | Xióng běn | Kumamoto city and prefecture in west Kyūshū 九州, Japan |
| 熊本县 | Xióng běn xiàn | Kumamoto prefecture, Kyūshū, Japan |
| 牙本质 | yá běn zhì | dentin; dentine |
| 生产成本 | shēng chǎn chéng běn | production costs |
| 生词本 | shēng cí běn | vocabulary notebook |
| 留言本 | liú yán běn | guestbook |
| 秘本 | mì běn | a treasured rare book |
| 神农本草经 | Shén nóng běn cǎo jīng | Shennong's compendium of materia medica, a Han dynasty pharmacological compendium, 3 scrolls |
| 稿本 | gǎo běn | manuscript (of a book etc); sketch (of a design etc) |
| 第一基本形式 | dì yī jī běn xíng shì | (math.) first fundamental form |
| 笔记本 | bǐ jì běn | notebook; CL:本 |
| 笔记本计算机 | bǐ jì běn jì suàn jī | laptop; notebook (computer) |
| 笔记本电脑 | bǐ jì běn diàn nǎo | laptop; notebook (computer); CL:台,部 |
| 节略本 | jié lüè běn | abridged version |
| 精校本 | jīng jiào běn | corrected edition |
| 约翰・本仁 | Yuē hàn · Běn rén | John Bunyan (1628-1688), English puritan writer, author of Pilgrim's Progress 天路历程 |
| 缀字课本 | zhuì zì kè běn | spelling book |
| 练习本 | liàn xí běn | exercise book; workbook; CL:本 |
| 总成本 | zǒng chéng běn | total costs |
| 繁本 | fán běn | detailed edition; unexpurgated version |
| 股本金比率 | gǔ běn jīn bǐ lǜ | equity ratio |
临时的本地管理接 口 | lín shí de běn dì guǎn lǐ jiē kǒu | Interim Local Management Interface; ILMI |
| 草本植物 | cǎo běn zhí wù | herbaceous plant |
| 藁本 | gǎo běn | Ligusticum levisticum (Chinese lovage root); ligusticum root |
| 藤本植物 | téng běn zhí wù | vine plant |
| 亏本出售 | kuī běn chū shòu | to sell at a loss |
| 血本 | xuè běn | hard-earned savings; capital (arising from one's blood and sweat) |
| 血本无归 | xuè běn wú guī | to lose one's life savings (e.g. after a bankruptcy); no return for one's hard-earned savings |
| 袖珍本 | xiù zhēn běn | pocket book; paperback |
| 复本 | fù běn | copy |
| 记事本 | jì shì běn | notebook; paper notepad; laptop computer |
| 读本 | dú běn | reader; an instructional book |
| 资本储备 | zī běn chǔ bèi | capital reserve |
| 资本外逃 | zī běn wài táo | outflow of capital |