ほんど
Meanings
Noun
1. Festland
2. Hauptland
3. (insbes.)Honshū, Shikoku, Kyūshū und Hokkaidō
4. Vaterland; Heimatland
5. Honshū
Pitch accent
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Composed of
Buch
Erde; drittes der fünf Elemente; Samstag (Abk.)
Used in vocabulary (6 in total)
Japan im im engeren Sinn (also z.B. im Gegensatz zu seinen Kolonien)
mainland decisive battle (land battle envisioned late in World War II)
Examples (4 in total)
All communication with the mainland was cut off by the typhoon.
The island is cut off far from the mainland.
We took a ferry from the island to the mainland.