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Chinese Character/Word:

Definition(s) for: 本体

Hanzi Pinyin Definition(s)
本体 běn tǐ - main part
- torso
- the thing in itself
- noumenon (object of purely intellectual perception according to Kant)

List Ranking:

Where rank 1 is most common, and higher numbers are less common.

HSK 2 Level (2012) HSK 3 Band (2022) SUBTLEX-CH BeijingUni Global BeijingUni Weibo
- - 32,569 16,649 18,769

Individual Character Breakdown:

Simp Pinyin Eng
běn- (bound form) root; stem
- (bound form) origin; source
- (bound form) one's own; this
- (bound form) this; the current (year etc)
- (bound form) original
- (bound form) inherent
- originally; initially
- capital; principal
- classifier for books, periodicals, files etc
- used in 體己|体己[ti1ji5]
- Taiwan pr. [ti3]
- body
- form
- style
- system
- substance
- to experience
- aspect (linguistics)

Other Words Containing 本体

Sorted by the 'SUBTLEX-CH' rank because that seems like the most reliable. Words without a SUBTLEX-CH rank are ignored for being too rare.

Word HSK 2 Level (2012) HSK 3 Band (2022) SUBTLEX-CH BeijingUni Global BeijingUni Weibo
本体 - - 32,569 16,649 18,769
本体论 - - 67,496 31,666 97,579