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Mythic Mandarin

本人 (běn rén): meaning and stroke order

本人 (běn rén) means I; me; myself, oneself; yourself; himself; herself; the person concerned.

本人

Simplified
本人
Traditional
本人 (same form)
Pinyin
běn rén

Stroke order of 本人

本

  • běn (bound form) root; stem; (bound form) origin; source
  • 5 strokes

Stroke by stroke

人

  • rén person; people; CL:個|个[ge4],位[wei4]
  • 2 strokes

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 本人

  1. běn rén
    • I; me; myself
    • oneself; yourself; himself; herself; the person concerned

Radicals of the characters

本
Radical 木 (Kangxi radical 75) · 5 strokes · built from 木 and 一
人
Radical 人 (Kangxi radical 9) · 2 strokes

Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan database. Structure: the shapes a character is written with (BabelStone IDS), not necessarily parts that carry meaning or sound.

本人 in our stories

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  • 等梁山伯终于明白过来，“九妹”就是英台本人，赶到祝家去提亲时，已经晚了。

    děng Liáng Shānbó zhōngyú míngbai guòlai jiǔmèi jiùshì Yīngtái běnrén gǎn dào zhù jiā qù tíqīn shí yǐjīng wǎn le

    By the time Liang Shanbo finally realised that the "ninth sister" was Yingtai herself and hurried to the Zhu family to propose, it was too late.

    From the story The Butterfly Lovers HSK 7–9 · Level 8

Stories using 本人

Dictionary data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Stroke data: Hanzi Writer data, derived from Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License). Animation: Hanzi Writer (MIT licence). Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan (Unicode License v3).