本 counts books and anything with bound pages: magazines, notebooks, dictionaries, passports and albums.
- 一本书a book
- 两本杂志two magazines
- 一本词典a dictionary
37 nouns that take 本
Most common first书book; letter杂志magazine支票check (bank); cheque地图map小说novel; fiction圣经the Confucian classics; (Christianity, Judaism) the holy scriptures日记diary护照passport笔记本notebook (stationery); notebook (computing)笔记to take down (in writing); notes诗歌poem日历calendar账account; bill字典Chinese character dictionary (containing entries for single characters, contrasted with a 词典 (cídiǎn), which has entries for words of one or more characters); (coll.) dictionary图书books (in a library or bookstore)小册子booklet; pamphlet本子book; notebook书本book说明书(technical) manual; (book of) directions课本textbook教科书textbook名册roll (of names); register辞典dictionary (variant of 词典 (cídiǎn))画报illustrated magazine百科全书encyclopedia词典dictionary影集photo album; (TV) series经文scripture; scriptures教材teaching material成语Chinese set expression, typically of 4 characters, often alluding to a story or historical quotation; idiom; proverb; saying; adage书目booklist; bibliography留言簿visitor's book集邮册stamp album练习本exercise book; workbook图集collection of pictures; atlas小人书children's picture story book集邮簿stamp album
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The nouns come from the measure-word notes in CC-CEDICT, ordered by how often each word appears in film and TV subtitles. Many nouns take more than one measure word, and 个 often works in casual speech.
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