The Chinese Radical: 本


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Meaning
root (of plants), origin    本

Explanation

Used in these characters:
HSK 1
roots or stems of plants, book, origin
běn
A tree 木 with roots 一
The tree comes out of the roots as origin and becomes a book.  
HSK 2
body, form, style, system

Left: person 亻/人, right: root, origin, book 本 (The tree 木 comes out of the roots 一 as origin and becomes a book.)
The person has his roots in the body.  
HSK 4
stupid, clumsy, foolish, silly
bèn
Top: bamboo 竹, below: root, origin 本 (The tree 木 comes out of the roots 一 as origin and becomes a book.)
(Since they are so branched and unremovable:) Whoever thinks that the bamboo's roots can be removed is: stupid.  
no HSK
small earthenware plate or basin, a monk's alms bowl

Left: metal 钅/金, right: root, origin 本 (The tree 木 comes out of the roots 一 as origin and becomes a book)
Metal can originally be used for: (alm) bowls.  
no HSK
benzol (chemistry), benzene
běn
Top: plant 艹, bottom: origin 本 (The tree 木 comes out of the roots 一 as origin and becomes a book.)
Plants are the origin of: benzol.  
no HSK
marsh, swamp, the high land along a river
gāo
Top: white 白 (The shine ノ of the sun 日 makes it white), bottom: origin 本
(White reed grows here:) The white has its origin in the marsh/swamp.  

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