ほんど – Vocabulary details

ほんど

Noun

1. mainland; the country proper

2. native country; country where one was born

3. pure land; Buddha realm

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book; volume; this; present; main; head; real

Saturday; earth; dirt; land; lands; earth (third of the five elements)

Japan proper (sometimes excluding the Ryukyu islands and other remote islands); mainland Japan

decisive mainland battle (land battle envisioned late in World War II)

mainland China; China proper

島しまからほんどまでは４０キロです。

It's forty kilometers from the island to the mainland.

台たい風ふうでほんどとの通つう信しんが絶たえた。

All communication with the mainland was cut off by the typhoon.

その島しまはほんどから遠とおく離はなれている。

The island is cut off far from the mainland.

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