本人

Chinese
 
roots or stems of plants; origin; source; this; the current; root; foundation; basis; (a measure word)
 man; person; people
simp. and trad.
(本人)		 本 人

Pronunciation

Pronoun

本人

  1. I; me; myself; oneself; himself; herself

Synonyms
Dialectal synonyms of 自己 (“oneself”) [map]
Variety Location Words
Classical Chinese 己, 自己, 自家
Formal (Written Standard Chinese) 自己
Mandarin Beijing 自個兒, 自己個兒, 各個兒
Taiwan 自己
Jinan 自家, 自個兒
Xi'an 自個兒, 自己個兒
Wuhan 自家, 自己
Chengdu 自家, 各人, 自己
Yangzhou 自簡, 自己
Hefei 自家
Cantonese Guangzhou 自己
Hong Kong 自己
Taishan 自己, 家己
Yangjiang 自己
Gan Nanchang 自簡
Hakka Meixian 自家
Miaoli (N. Sixian) 自家
Liudui (S. Sixian) 自家
Hsinchu (Hailu) 自家
Dongshi (Dabu) 自家
Hsinchu (Raoping) 自家
Yunlin (Zhao'an) 自家
Huizhou Jixi 自家
Jin Taiyuan 自己, 自家
Min Bei Jian'ou 自己
Min Dong Fuzhou 自家
Min Nan Xiamen 家己
Quanzhou 家己
Zhangzhou 家己
Taipei 家己
Kaohsiung 家己
Tainan 家己
Taichung 家己
Hsinchu 家己
Lukang 家己
Sanxia 家己
Yilan 家己
Kinmen 家己
Magong 家己
Penang 家己
Philippines (Manila) 家己
Chaozhou 家己
Shantou 家己
Haikou 家己
Leizhou 家己
Wu Suzhou 自家
Wenzhou 自
Xiang Changsha 自家
Shuangfeng 自家, 自己

Japanese
Kanji in this term
本 人
ほん
Grade: 1		 にん
Grade: 1
on’yomi

Etymology

Possibly from Middle Chinese, or composed in Japan of Sinitic elements: 本 (hon, “main; real; the one under discussion”) + 人 (nin, “person”). Compare modern Mandarin 本人 (běnrén).

Pronunciation

Noun

本人 (hiragana ほんにん, rōmaji honnin)

  1. the person themselves, that person himself or herself
  2. the person in question, the relevant person, the person concerned
  3. the main person, the leader
  4. a ringleader, the lead instigator or conspirator

References
  1. 1998, NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 (NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK, →ISBN
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