Word details

本文

Meanings, readings, and example sentences for the Japanese word 本文.

Dictionary

Entry

本文んぶんんもんNounFreq #16950
1

text (of a book, document, etc.); body (of a letter)

Examples
この本は本文の部分はそんなに多くない。
There's not so much text in this book.
2

this passage; this sentence

Character notes

Kanji in this Word

book, present, main, origin, true, real, counter for long cylindrical things

5 strokesFrequency 10JLPT N4Grade 1

On

ホン

Kun

もと

Nanori

まとごう

sentence, literature, style, art, decoration, figures, plan, literary radical (no. 67)

4 strokesFrequency 190JLPT N3Grade 1

On

ブンモン

Kun

ふみあや

Nanori

かざり

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