| 本 | běn | roots or stems of plants; origin; source; this; the current; root; foundation; basis; classifier for books, periodicals, files etc; originally |
| 本身 | běn shēn | itself; in itself; per se |
| 本质 | běn zhì | essence; nature; innate character; intrinsic quality |
| 本来 | běn lái | original; originally; at first; it goes without saying; of course |
| 本国 | běn guó | one's own country |
| 本人 | běn rén | the person himself; I (humble form used in speeches); oneself; myself; in person; personal |
| 本性 | běn xìng | natural instincts; nature; inherent quality |
| 本地 | běn dì | local; this locality |
| 本领 | běn lǐng | skill; ability; capability; CL:项,个 |
| 本文 | běn wén | this text; article; the main body of a book |
| 本能 | běn néng | instinct |
| 本题 | běn tí | the subject under discussion; the point at issue |
| 本月 | běn yuè | this month; the current month |
| 本事 | běn shì | source material; original story |
| 本事 | běn shi | ability; skill |
| 本部 | běn bù | headquarters; home office |
| 本着 | běn zhe | based on...; in conformance with..; taking as one's main principle |
| 本纪 | běn jì | biographic sketch of an emperor |
| 本子 | běn zi | book; notebook; edition; CL:本 |
| 本科 | běn kē | undergraduate course; undergraduate (adjective) |
| 本体 | běn tǐ | main part; torso; the thing in itself; noumenon (object of purely intellectual perception according to Kant) |
| 本色 | běn sè | inherent qualities; natural qualities; distinctive character; true qualities |
| 本色 | běn shǎi | natural color |
| 本钱 | běn qián | capital |
| 本位 | běn wèi | standard; one's own department or unit |
| 本届 | běn jiè | current; this year |
| 本垒 | běn lěi | home base; home plate (in baseball) |
| 本土 | běn tǔ | one's native country; native; local; metropolitan territory |
| 本意 | běn yì | original idea; real intention; etymon |
| 本草 | běn cǎo | a book on Chinese (herbal) medicine; Chinese materia medica |
| 本本 | běn běn | notebook computer (diminutive); laptop |
| 本来面目 | běn lái miàn mù | true colors; true features |
| 本源 | běn yuán | origin; source |
| 本年度 | běn nián dù | this year; the current year |
| 本票 | běn piào | cashier's check |
| 本职 | běn zhí | one's job |
| 本行 | běn háng | one's line; one's own profession |
| 本分 | běn fèn | (to play) one's part; one's role; one's duty; (to stay within) one's bounds |
| 本草纲目 | běn cǎo gāng mù | Compendium of medical herbs 1596, compiled by Lǐ Shízhēn 李时珍 |
| 本家 | běn jiā | a member of the same clan; a distant relative with the same family name |
| 本溪 | Běn xī | Benxi prefecture level city in Liaoning province 辽宁省 in northeast China |
| 本相 | běn xiàng | original form |
| 本位主义 | běn wèi zhǔ yì | selfish departmentalism; departmental selfishness |
| 本州 | Běn zhōu | Honshū, the main island of Japan |
| 本末 | běn mò | the whole course of an event from beginning to end; ins and outs; the fundamental and the incidental |
| 本・拉登 | Běn · Lā dēng | Osama bin Laden (1957-), leader of Al Qaeda |
| 本人的观点 | běn rén de guān diǎn | (one's) personal view |
| 本份 | běn fèn | one's duty |
| 本位制 | běn wèi zhì | monetary standard |
| 本位货币 | běn wèi huò bì | local currency; our own currency; abbr. 本币 |
