本土 – Vocabulary details

本ほん土ど

Meanings

Noun

1. mainland; the country proper

2. native country; country where one was born

3. pure land; Buddha realm

Alt. forms

本ほん土ど

98%

ほんど

Kanji used

本

book

土

earth

Pitch accent

ほ

んど

Used in: 420

Composed of

本ほん

book; volume; this; present; main; head

土ど

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

Used in vocabulary (6 in total)

日に本ほん本ほん土ど

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

本ほん土ど決けっ戦せん

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

中ちゅう国ごく本ほん土ど

mainland China; China proper

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Examples (4 in total)

台たい風ふうで本ほん土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.

その島しまは本ほん土どから遠とおく離はなれている。

The island is cut off far from the mainland.

我われ々われは島しまから本ほん土どへフェリーで渡わたった。

We took a ferry from the island to the mainland.

島しまから本ほん土どまでは４０キロです。

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