Entry
  1. (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")

Characters in this word

2
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(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
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