Pinyin: běn

measure word for books

Example sentence

我有三本书。

Wǒ yǒu sān běn shū.

I have three books.

What 本 means

(běn) is a Chinese word meaning “measure word for books”. It belongs to the Things & Animals topic and appears at HSK 1, so it is one of the words worth learning early when you study Chinese.

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