本文

Chinese

		roots or stems of plants; origin; source roots or stems of plants; origin; source; this; the current; root; foundation; basis; (a measure word)	language; culture; writing language; culture; writing; formal; literary; gentle
simp. and trad. (本文)		本	文
anagram		文本

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): běnwén

  (Zhuyin): ㄅㄣˇ ㄨㄣˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): bun² man⁴
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): pún-bûn

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: běnwén
    • Zhuyin: ㄅㄣˇ ㄨㄣˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: běnwún
    • Wade–Giles: pên³-wên²
    • Yale: běn-wén
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: beenwen
    • Palladius: бэньвэнь (bɛnʹvɛnʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pən²¹⁴⁻²¹ wən³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: bun² man⁴
    • Yale: bún màhn
    • Cantonese Pinyin: bun² man⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: bun² men⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /puːn³⁵ mɐn²¹/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: pún-bûn
    • Tâi-lô: pún-bûn
    • Phofsit Daibuun: pwnbuun
    • Sinological IPA (Xiamen): /pun⁵³⁻⁴⁴ bun²⁴/
    • Sinological IPA (Quanzhou): /pun⁵⁵⁴⁻²⁴ bun²⁴/
    • Sinological IPA (Zhangzhou): /pun⁵³⁻⁴⁴ bun¹³/
    • Sinological IPA (Taipei): /pun⁵³⁻⁴⁴ bun²⁴/
    • Sinological IPA (Kaohsiung): /pun⁴¹⁻⁴⁴ bun²³/

Noun

本文

1. this text; this article; this paper
2. source text; original text
3. main article of a book; main body of a work

Synonyms

• (source text): 原文 (yuánwén)

Japanese

Kanji in this term
本	文
ほん Grade: 1	ぶん Grade: 1
on'yomi

Kanji in this term
本	文
ほん Grade: 1	もん Grade: 1
on'yomi

Pronunciation

• (Tokyo) ほんぶん [hóꜜǹbùǹ] (Atamadaka – [1])
• (Tokyo) ほんもん [hóꜜǹmòǹ] (Atamadaka – [1])
• IPA^(key): [hõ̞mbɯ̟̃ɴ]
• IPA^(key): [hõ̞mːõ̞ɴ]

Noun

本(ほん)文(ぶん) or 本(ほん)文(もん) • (honbun or honmon) 

1. text, body of a book, document, etc.

   本文(ほんぶん)用(よう)の書体(しょたい)

   honbun-yō no shotai

   typeface for use in body text

Korean

Hanja in this term
本	文

Noun

本文 • (bonmun) (hangeul 본문)

1. hanja form^? of 본문 (“text, the body of a book”)