original; originally; at first; it goes without saying; of course

I; me; myself; oneself; yourself; himself; herself; the person concerned

itself; in itself; per se

source material; original story

ability; skill

local; this locality

instinct

natural instincts; nature; inherent quality

essence; nature; innate character; intrinsic quality

native person (of a country)

Benjamin (person name)

one's native country; native; local; metropolitan territory

original idea; real intention; etymon

skill; ability; capability; CL:項|项[xiang4],個|个[ge4]

headquarters; head office

book; notebook; Japanese-style self-published comic (esp. an erotic one), aka "dōjinshi"; CL:本[ben3]; edition

should have; ought to have

this city; our city

one's own country

this month; the current month

inherent qualities; natural qualities; distinctive character; true qualities

natural color

original name; real name; (of foreigners) first name; given name

capital; (fig.) asset; advantage; the means (to do sth)

(to play) one's part; one's role; one's duty; (to stay within) one's bounds; dutiful; keeping to one's role

Honshū, the main island of Japan

Honda (Japanese name)

home run (baseball)

(baseball) home base; home plate

a member of the same clan; a distant relative with the same family name

(Osama) bin Laden (1957-2011), leader of Al Qaeda

main part; torso; the thing in itself; noumenon (object of purely intellectual perception according to Kant)

this year; the current year

this radio station

It is hard to change one's essential nature (idiom). You can't change who you are.; Can the leopard change his spots? (Jeremiah 13:23)

(Buddhism) yidam (one's chosen meditational deity); the principal object of worship on a Buddhist altar; (of a monk who has the ability to appear in multiple places at the same time) the honored one himself (contrasted with his alternate forms, 分身[fen1 shen1]); (fig.) (jocular) the genuine article; the real McCoy; the man himself; the woman herself; the original manifestation of sth (not a spin-off or a clone)

(economics) standard; benchmark (as in 金本位[jin1 ben3 wei4] "gold standard"); one's own department or unit; central reference point; fundamental frame of reference (used after a noun N, indicates an N-centered outlook, as in 學校本位|学校本位[xue2 xiao4 ben3 wei4] "school-centered approach")

business in which a company has traditionally engaged (e.g. before diversifying); original business; core business; (literary) agriculture

original meaning; literal sense

home village; one's native place

basic salary

principal and interest; capital and profit

this city; this town

(loanword) pence; penny

here; this place

original form of a Chinese character

by nature; fundamentally; inherently

current; this year

main island