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本人

běn rén

Old HSK 6 HSK 3.0 level 5 2-character word

本人 (běn rén) means "I; me; myself". It is an HSK 3.0 level 5 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 本人 means

1. I; me; myself
2. oneself; yourself; himself; herself; the person concerned

The characters in 本人

• 本běn(bound form) root; stem; (bound form) origin; source; (bound form) one's own; this
• 人rénperson; people

Example sentences

• 我是日本人。
  I am a Japanese.
• 她是日本人。
  She is Japanese.
• 她爹是日本人。
  Tā diē shì Rìběnrén.
  Her father is Japanese.
• 它是基本人权。
  Tā shì jīběn rénquán.
  It's a basic human right.
• 你不是日本人。
  You are not Japanese.
• 她爸是日本人。
  Her father is Japanese.

Words containing 本人

• 日本人Rì běn rénJapanese person
• 以本人名yǐ běn rén míngunder one's own name; named after oneself
• 精神日本人jīng shén Rì běn rén(neologism) "spiritually Japanese person"; person who identifies strongly with Japan

Where 本人 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.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 6 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read běn rén correctly.
• Look up another word in the free dictionary.