Japanese Word Entry

一本

Kana:	いっぽん
Romaji:	ippon
Definitions:	one long cylindrical thing, one film, TV show, etc., one goal, home run, etc., one telephone call one version one book, a certain book ippon, one point, a blow geisha single-minded focus on ...
Alternative form:	１本【いっぽん (ippon) 】

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Chinese characters used in this word

一	one, one radical (no.1), a, an, alone

Readings

Mandarin:	ㄧ (yī)
Cantonese:	jat1
Japanese:	イチ (ichi)、イツ (itsu) / ひと- (hito-)、ひと.つ (hitotsu)、ひとたび (hitotabi)、はじめ (hajime)
Korean:	일 (il)
Vietnamese:	nhất

Variants

Semantic variant forms:

壹、弌

本	book, present, main, origin, true, real, counter for long cylindrical things, root, source, basis

Readings

Mandarin:	ㄅㄣˇ (běn), ㄅㄣ (bēn)
Cantonese:	bun2
Japanese:	ホン (hon) / もと (moto)
Korean:	본 (bon)
Vietnamese:	bổn, bản