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基本

jī běn

Old HSK 5 HSK 3.0 level 4 2-character word

基本 (jī běn) means "basic". It is an HSK 3.0 level 4 word, and was HSK 5 in the old six-level list.

What 基本 means

1. basic
2. fundamental
3. main
4. elementary

The characters in 基本

• 基jī(bound form) base; foundation; (bound form) radical (chemistry)…
• 本běn(bound form) root; stem; (bound form) origin; source; (bound form) one's own; this

Example sentences

• 基本上吧。
  Basically.
• 它是基本人权。
  Tā shì jīběn rénquán.
  It's a basic human right.
• 你不懂基本逻辑吗？
  Nǐ bù dǒng jīběn luóji ma?
  Do you not understand basic logic?
• 这些都是基本问题。
  These are fundamental questions.
• 工人拿不到基本工资。
  The workers didn't get their basic wage.
• 基本上我赞同你的意见。
  Jīběnshang wǒ zàntóng nǐ de yìjiàn.
  Basically, I agree with your opinion.

Words starting with 基本

• 基本上jī běn shangbasically; on the whole
• 基本功jī běn gōngbasic skills; fundamentals
• 基本法jī běn fǎbasic law (constitutional document)
• 基本面jī běn miànbasics; essentials; fundamentals; (finance) fundamentals
• 基本定理jī běn dìng lǐfundamental theorem
• 基本点jī běn diǎnkey point; crux; (finance) basis point
• 基本需要jī běn xū yàobasic necessity; fundamental need
• 基本原则jī běn yuán zéfundamental doctrine; guiding principle; raison d'être
• 基本原理jī běn yuán lǐfundamental principle
• 基本单位jī běn dān wèibasic unit; fundamental building block
• 基本利率jī běn lì lǜbase rate (e.g. interest rate set by central bank)
• 基本概念jī běn gài niànbasic concept
• 基本词汇jī běn cí huìbasic word
• 基本盘jī běn pán(political party's) voter base; (musician's) fan base; (a business's) customer base
• 基本粒子jī běn lì zǐelementary particle (particle physics)
• 基本多文种平面jī běn duō wén zhǒng píng miànbasic multilingual plane (BMP)

Words containing 基本

• 四项基本原则Sì xiàng Jī běn Yuán zéthe Four Cardinal Principles enunciated by Deng Xiaoping 邓小平
• 香港基本法Xiāng gǎng Jī běn fǎHong Kong Basic Law (in effect since the resumption of Chinese sovereignty in 1997)
• 第一基本形式dì yī jī běn xíng shì(math) first fundamental form

Where 基本 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of Building, Planning & Organizing (HSK 5), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 5 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read jī běn correctly.
• Look up another word in the free dictionary.