Characters in this word

4
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(bound form) base; foundation, (bound form) radical (chemistry), (bound form) gay (loanword from English into Cantonese, Jyutping: gei1, followed by orthographic borrowing from Cantonese)

Pinyin
Strokes
11
Frequency
3484 of 2500
Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0

(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

Pinyin
běn
Strokes
5
Frequency
799 of 2500