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本事

běn shì

Old HSK 6 HSK 3.0 level 7-9 2-character word

本事 (běn shì) means "source material; original story; ability". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 本事 means

1. source material
2. original story

Other readings

本事 is 多音字 — it is read more than one way, and the reading changes the meaning.

• běn shiability; skill

The characters in 本事

• 本běn(bound form) root; stem; (bound form) origin; source; (bound form) one's own; this
• 事shìmatter; thing; item

Words containing 本事

• 有本事yǒu běn shito have what it takes; (colloquial) (often followed by 就; Example: 有本事就打我
• 卖本事mài běn shìto flaunt a skill; to give display to one's ability; to show off a feat
• 看家本事kān jiā běn shisee 看家本领

Sounds the same

Read běn shì, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 本市this city; our city
• 本士(loanword) pence; penny

Where 本事 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 6 Vocabulary · béng–bǐ (HSK 6), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

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• Every HSK 6 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read běn shì correctly.
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