Word and Radical Components of 笔记本

The Chinese word 笔记本 is analysed below into its constituent words and the words into radicals. By seeing the breakdown of the word in this way you can more easily learn and recognise the word.

Component	Pinyin	Meanings
笔记本		1. Simplified form of 筆記本

笔记本 ⇨ 笔 + 记 + 本

Component	Pinyin	Meanings
笔		1. Variant of 筆
记		1. Simplified form of 記
本	běn	1. (of plants) root; stem
		2. source; origin; root
		努力工作是成功之本。 - Hard work is the ultimate source of success.
		3. foundation; basis
		謙遜是美德之本。 - Humility is the foundation of all virtue.
		4. edition; version; copy
		標點本 - punctuated edition
		宋本 - Song-era edition
		5. originally; initially
		6. current; present
		本年 - current year
		本財政年度的全部投資預算已用完。 - We have already used up our total investment budget for the current fiscal year.
		7. this; here; this very
		本人 - I lit. this person
		戲精本精 - drama queen him/herself
		本函下面所示系 Y 先生的簽名。 - You will find the signature of Mr. Y. at the foot hereof.
		8. capital (money used in investment)
		一本書 - a book
		一本雜誌 - a magazine
		一本冊 (chi̍t pún chheh) - a book, MN
		9. volume
		10. (Korean Classical Chinese) ancestral seat of a descent group

笔 ⇨ ⺮ + 毛

Component	Pinyin	Meanings
竹	zhú	1. bamboo
		竹子zi - bamboo
		2. (musical instrument) musical instrument made of bamboo
		Zhu
毛	máo, Máo	1. hair (of humans or animals); fur; feather
		雞毛 - chicken feather
		2. (dialectal) hair on the head
		3. mildew; mold
		4. (colloquial) jiao; one tenth of a yuan or dollar; ten cents; dime
		一毛錢 - a jiao / ten cents
		三塊兩毛 - three yuan and two jiao / three dollars and twenty cents
		五毛黨 - wumao
		5. coarse; raw; semifinished
		毛茶 - raw tea
		6. (of an amount) gross
		(ant, zh, 淨)
		毛利 - gross profit
		毛重 - gross weight
		7. rough; sketchy
		毛估 - to make a rough estimate
		8. small; little
		毛毛雨 - drizzle
		毛孩子zi - mere child
		9. careless; unthinking
		毛手毛腳 - to be careless
		10. panicked; scared; nervous
		把我嚇毛了 - to have scared me
		11. angry; furious
		12. (of currency) depreciated
		13. (mainland, colloquial or slang) no; nothing; damn all; my ass
		有毛用 - be not effective or useful, to be of damn-all use
		管毛用 - be not effective or useful, to be of damn-all use
		14. (Cantonese, colloquial, always with the classifier) nothing; damn all; jack shit; bugger all
		Synonyms: 春
		你識條毛咩？ - Do you know anything at all?
		15. (ACG) hair (in unnatural colours)
		白毛 - the character with white-coloured hair
		假毛 - wig
		毛澤-東 - Mao Zedong (Mao Tse-tung), founder of the People's Republic of China
		16. usage. In Standard Chinese, for hair on the human head, use 頭髮 instead.

记 ⇨ 讠 + 己

Component	Pinyin	Meanings
讠		1. speech
讠		2. Simplified form of 訁
己	jǐ	1. self; oneself
		2. personal; private
		3. the sixth of the ten heavenly stems
		4. Only used in 潮州音樂——自己顧自己

本 ⇨ 木 + 一

Component	Pinyin	Meanings
木	mù	1. tree; woody plant
		Synonyms: 樹
		樹木 - tree
		灌木 - shrub
		木芍藥 - tree peony
		2. wood; timber
		木頭tou - log
		3. wooden
		這張桌子是木的。 - This table is made of wood
		4. simple; plain; slow; emotionless; wooden
		木訥 - plain spoken, slow and inarticulate
		棺木 - coffin
		就木 - to die (to enter one's coffin)
		5. (Mandarin, neologism, slang) (eye dialect of zh, 沒)
		有木有 - innit, damn right
		6. numb
		麻木 - numb, insensitive
		她手指凍木了。 - Her fingers were numb with cold.
一	一	1. one
		一長一短 - yī cháng yī duǎn - one short and one long
		一死一傷 - yī sǐ yī shāng - one dead, one injured
		一高一低 - yī gāo yī dī - one high and one low
		一天一夜 - yī tiān yī yè - one day and one night
		一日一夜 - jat1 jat6 jat1 je6 - one day and one night, C
		一左一右 - yī zuǒ yī yòu - one left, one right
		2. each; every
		給他們一人一顆蘋果。 (Gěi tā men yī rén yī kē píngguǒ.) - Give them an apple each.
		3. single; alone
		獨自一人 - dúzì yī rén - a solitary person, one person
		專一 - zhuānyī - single-minded, monogamous
		4. whole; entire; all: throughout
		他們在海灘上玩了一下午。 (Tāmen zài hǎitān shàng wán le yī xiàwǔ.) - They played the whole afternoon on the beach.
		5. same; identical
		大小不一 - dàxiǎo bùyī - not having the same size
		大細不一 - daai6 sai3 bat1 jat1 - not having the same size, C
		6. (classical) another; alternative
		蟋蟀，一名促織。 (Xīshuài, yī míng cùzhī.) - Crickets, also called cùzhī lit. another name being cùzhī.
		7. (formal) certain aforementioned
		「旋律」一詞中的「旋」字 - “xuánlǜ” yī cí zhōng de “xuán” zì - the character (m-lite, zh, sc=Hani, 旋) within the word m-lite, zh, sc=Hani, 旋律
		8. With the verb modified reduplicated, expressing the transience of the verb:
		9. Indicating that the action has occurred only once
		10. 看一看 - kàn yī kàn - to have a look
		11. 望一望 - mong6 jat1 mong6 - to have a look, C
		12. Indicating the intention to try
		13. 算一算 - suàn yī suàn - to try to calculate it
		14. 計一計 - gai3 jat1 gai3 - to try to calculate it, C
		15. once; as soon as; upon
		一到 OP 就卡。 (Yī dào OP jiù kǎ.) - It slows down once I get to the opening.
		我一拍了照片，她就立即成為眾人矚目的焦點。 (Wǒ yī pāi le zhàopiàn, tā jiù lìjí chéngwèi zhòngrén zhǔmù de jiāodiǎn.) - As soon as I took a picture, she ran towards the limelight.
		一見如故 - yījiànrúgù - to hit it off
		一至於此 - yīzhìyúcǐ - How did things ever get so far?
		16. (gay slang) top
		一號 - yīhào - a top
		17. (Cantonese, argot, euphemistic) to die
		18. =====Usage notes=====
	yī	19. (music) Kunqu gongche notation for the note low ti (7̣).
		20. one
		21. each; every
		22. whole; entire; all
	yíeijing dialect	23. (Beijing) one
		24. =====Usage notes=====