本
Kana: ほん
book
Example sentence
毎晩、本を読みます。
まいばん、ほんをよみます。
I read books every night.
What 本 means
本 (ほん) is a Japanese word meaning “book”. It belongs to the Things & Objects topic and appears at Level 1, so it is one of the words worth learning early when you study Japanese.