Chinese word dictionary

禾本科

hé běn kē · Graminae or Poaceae, the grass family

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Word information

Simplified禾本科

Traditional禾本科

Pinyinhé běn kē

Part of speechDictionary

HSK 3.0Not listed

HSK 2.0Not listed

Character breakdown

Study each Hanzi separately, then return to the complete word so pronunciation, meaning, and movement stay connected.

禾hé

cereal, grain, rice; plant, stalk

本běn

root, origin, source; basis

科kē

section, department; field, branch; science

How to learn 禾本科

Listen once without reading, repeat the pinyin with its tones, then write every character in sequence. Finally, recall the complete meaning instead of memorizing each character as an isolated translation.

When the word appears in a sentence, check whether its part of speech and meaning match the definition shown here. Chinese words can change nuance with context.

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Words with the same characters

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本běn

(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

本běn

root; stem; origin; source; this

本子běnzi

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

笔记本bǐjìběn

notebook (stationery) (CL:本[ben3]); (computing) laptop; notebook (abbr. for 筆記本電腦|笔记本电脑[bi3 ji4 ben3 dian4 nao3])

课本kèběn

textbook; CL:本[ben3]

本科běnkē

undergraduate course; undergraduate (attributive)