本末

Chinese

		roots or stems of plants; origin; source roots or stems of plants; origin; source; this; the current; root; foundation; basis; (a measure word)	end; final stage; latter part
simp. and trad. (本末)		本	末

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): běnmò

  (Zhuyin): ㄅㄣˇ ㄇㄛˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): bun² mut⁶

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: běnmò
    • Zhuyin: ㄅㄣˇ ㄇㄛˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: běnmò
    • Wade–Giles: pên³-mo⁴
    • Yale: běn-mwò
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: beenmoh
    • Palladius: бэньмо (bɛnʹmo)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pən²¹⁴⁻²¹ mu̯ɔ⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: bun² mut⁶
    • Yale: bún muht
    • Cantonese Pinyin: bun² mut⁹
    • Guangdong Romanization: bun² mud⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /puːn³⁵ muːt̚²/

Noun

(deprecated template usage) 本末

1. root or trunk of a tree and the branches
2. the fundamental and the incidental
3. ins and outs; the whole story

Derived terms

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