本
book, origin
- 木tree
- 一one
- kun
- もとmoto
- on
- ホンhon
mnemonic
A TREE (木) with ONE (一) line marking its root. The root is the ORIGIN of the tree, and paper for BOOKS comes from trees. "Hon" (ホン) as in Nihon, Japan, the origin of the sun.
examples
- 本ほんhonbook
- 日本にほんnihonJapan
- 本当ほんとうhontōtruth, really