"本末" meaning in Chinese

See 本末 in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

IPA: /pən²¹⁴⁻²¹ mu̯ɔ⁵¹/ [Mandarin, Sinological-IPA], /puːn³⁵ muːt̚²/ [Cantonese, Sinological-IPA], /pən²¹⁴⁻²¹ mu̯ɔ⁵¹/, /puːn³⁵ muːt̚²/ Chinese transliterations: běnmò [Mandarin, Pinyin], ㄅㄣˇ ㄇㄛˋ [Mandarin, bopomofo], bun² mut⁶ [Cantonese, Jyutping], běnmò [Hanyu-Pinyin, Mandarin], běnmò [Mandarin, Tongyong-Pinyin], pên³-mo⁴ [Mandarin, Wade-Giles], běn-mwò [Mandarin, Yale], beenmoh [Gwoyeu-Romatsyh, Mandarin], бэньмо [Mandarin, Palladius], bɛnʹmo [Mandarin, Palladius], bún muht [Cantonese, Yale], bun² mut⁹ [Cantonese, Pinyin], bun² mud⁶ [Cantonese, Guangdong-Romanization]
Head templates: {{head|zh|noun}} 本末
  1. (literally) root or trunk of a tree and the branches Tags: literally
    Sense id: en-本末-zh-noun-cTRUY42o
  2. (figuratively) the fundamental and the incidental Tags: figuratively Synonyms (the fundamental and the incidental): 主次 (zhǔcì)
    Sense id: en-本末-zh-noun-B9HKSKYg Disambiguation of 'the fundamental and the incidental': 0 96 3
  3. (figuratively) ins and outs; the whole story Tags: figuratively
    Sense id: en-本末-zh-noun-EZkEnKCj Categories (other): Chinese antonymous compounds, Chinese entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of Chinese antonymous compounds: 13 14 72 Disambiguation of Chinese entries with incorrect language header: 2 12 86
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: 事情經過 (shìqíng jīngguò), 事情经过 (shìqíng jīngguò), 事由 (shìyóu), 原委 (yuánwěi), 委曲 (wěiqū), 始末 (shǐmò), 究竟 (jiūjìng), 經過 (jīngguò), 经过 (jīngguò) Derived forms: 本末不稱, 本末不称, 本末倒置 (běnmòdàozhì), 本末有序, 本末舛逆, 本末顛倒 (běnmòdiāndǎo), 本末颠倒 (běnmòdiāndǎo) Related terms: 樹根 (shùgēn), 树根 (shùgēn), 樹梢 (shùshāo), 树梢 (shùshāo)

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  "derived": [
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      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "本末不稱"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "本末不称"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "roman": "běnmòdàozhì",
      "word": "本末倒置"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "本末有序"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "本末舛逆"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "roman": "běnmòdiāndǎo",
      "word": "本末顛倒"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "roman": "běnmòdiāndǎo",
      "word": "本末颠倒"
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "zh",
        "2": "noun"
      },
      "expansion": "本末",
      "name": "head"
    }
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  "lang": "Chinese",
  "lang_code": "zh",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "roman": "shùgēn",
      "word": "樹根"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "roman": "shùgēn",
      "word": "树根"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "roman": "shùshāo",
      "word": "樹梢"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "roman": "shùshāo",
      "word": "树梢"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "root or trunk of a tree and the branches"
      ],
      "id": "en-本末-zh-noun-cTRUY42o",
      "links": [
        [
          "root",
          "root"
        ],
        [
          "trunk",
          "trunk"
        ],
        [
          "tree",
          "tree"
        ],
        [
          "branch",
          "branch"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(literally) root or trunk of a tree and the branches"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "literally"
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "the fundamental and the incidental"
      ],
      "id": "en-本末-zh-noun-B9HKSKYg",
      "links": [
        [
          "fundamental",
          "fundamental"
        ],
        [
          "incidental",
          "incidental"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(figuratively) the fundamental and the incidental"
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "_dis1": "0 96 3",
          "roman": "zhǔcì",
          "sense": "the fundamental and the incidental",
          "word": "主次"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "figuratively"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "13 14 72",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Chinese antonymous compounds",
          "parents": [
            "Antonymous compounds",
            "Antonym",
            "Dvandva compounds",
            "Compound terms",
            "Terms by etymology"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "2 12 86",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Chinese entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "Historical Events of the Comprehensive Mirror in their Entirety",
          "ref": "《通鑑紀事本末》 [MSC, trad.]",
          "text": "《通鉴纪事本末》 [MSC, simp.]\n“Tōngjiàn Jìshì Běnmò” [Pinyin]",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "ins and outs; the whole story"
      ],
      "id": "en-本末-zh-noun-EZkEnKCj",
      "links": [
        [
          "ins and outs",
          "ins and outs"
        ],
        [
          "whole",
          "whole"
        ],
        [
          "story",
          "story"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(figuratively) ins and outs; the whole story"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "figuratively"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Pinyin"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "běnmò"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "bopomofo"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "ㄅㄣˇ ㄇㄛˋ"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Jyutping"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "bun² mut⁶"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hanyu-Pinyin",
        "Mandarin"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "běnmò"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Tongyong-Pinyin"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "běnmò"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Wade-Giles"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "pên³-mo⁴"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Yale"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "běn-mwò"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Gwoyeu-Romatsyh",
        "Mandarin"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "beenmoh"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Palladius"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "бэньмо"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Palladius"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "bɛnʹmo"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/pən²¹⁴⁻²¹ mu̯ɔ⁵¹/",
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Sinological-IPA"
      ]
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Yale"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "bún muht"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Pinyin"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "bun² mut⁹"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Guangdong-Romanization"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "bun² mud⁶"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/puːn³⁵ muːt̚²/",
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Sinological-IPA"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/pən²¹⁴⁻²¹ mu̯ɔ⁵¹/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/puːn³⁵ muːt̚²/"
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "roman": "shìqíng jīngguò",
      "word": "事情經過"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "roman": "shìqíng jīngguò",
      "word": "事情经过"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "roman": "shìyóu",
      "word": "事由"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "roman": "yuánwěi",
      "word": "原委"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "roman": "wěiqū",
      "word": "委曲"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "roman": "shǐmò",
      "word": "始末"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "roman": "jiūjìng",
      "word": "究竟"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "roman": "jīngguò",
      "word": "經過"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "roman": "jīngguò",
      "word": "经过"
    }
  ],
  "word": "本末"
}
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    "Chinese antonymous compounds",
    "Chinese entries with incorrect language header",
    "Chinese lemmas",
    "Chinese nouns",
    "Chinese terms with IPA pronunciation"
  ],
  "derived": [
    {
      "word": "本末不稱"
    },
    {
      "word": "本末不称"
    },
    {
      "roman": "běnmòdàozhì",
      "word": "本末倒置"
    },
    {
      "word": "本末有序"
    },
    {
      "word": "本末舛逆"
    },
    {
      "roman": "běnmòdiāndǎo",
      "word": "本末顛倒"
    },
    {
      "roman": "běnmòdiāndǎo",
      "word": "本末颠倒"
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
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        "2": "noun"
      },
      "expansion": "本末",
      "name": "head"
    }
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  "lang": "Chinese",
  "lang_code": "zh",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "roman": "shùgēn",
      "word": "樹根"
    },
    {
      "roman": "shùgēn",
      "word": "树根"
    },
    {
      "roman": "shùshāo",
      "word": "樹梢"
    },
    {
      "roman": "shùshāo",
      "word": "树梢"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "root or trunk of a tree and the branches"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "root",
          "root"
        ],
        [
          "trunk",
          "trunk"
        ],
        [
          "tree",
          "tree"
        ],
        [
          "branch",
          "branch"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(literally) root or trunk of a tree and the branches"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "literally"
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "the fundamental and the incidental"
      ],
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        [
          "fundamental",
          "fundamental"
        ],
        [
          "incidental",
          "incidental"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(figuratively) the fundamental and the incidental"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "figuratively"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "Mandarin terms with usage examples"
      ],
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        {
          "english": "Historical Events of the Comprehensive Mirror in their Entirety",
          "ref": "《通鑑紀事本末》 [MSC, trad.]",
          "text": "《通鉴纪事本末》 [MSC, simp.]\n“Tōngjiàn Jìshì Běnmò” [Pinyin]",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "ins and outs; the whole story"
      ],
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        [
          "ins and outs",
          "ins and outs"
        ],
        [
          "whole",
          "whole"
        ],
        [
          "story",
          "story"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(figuratively) ins and outs; the whole story"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "figuratively"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Pinyin"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "běnmò"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "bopomofo"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "ㄅㄣˇ ㄇㄛˋ"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Jyutping"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "bun² mut⁶"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hanyu-Pinyin",
        "Mandarin"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "běnmò"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Tongyong-Pinyin"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "běnmò"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Wade-Giles"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "pên³-mo⁴"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Yale"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "běn-mwò"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Gwoyeu-Romatsyh",
        "Mandarin"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "beenmoh"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Palladius"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "бэньмо"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Palladius"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "bɛnʹmo"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/pən²¹⁴⁻²¹ mu̯ɔ⁵¹/",
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Sinological-IPA"
      ]
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Yale"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "bún muht"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Pinyin"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "bun² mut⁹"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Guangdong-Romanization"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "bun² mud⁶"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/puːn³⁵ muːt̚²/",
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Sinological-IPA"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/pən²¹⁴⁻²¹ mu̯ɔ⁵¹/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/puːn³⁵ muːt̚²/"
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "roman": "zhǔcì",
      "sense": "the fundamental and the incidental",
      "word": "主次"
    },
    {
      "roman": "shìqíng jīngguò",
      "word": "事情經過"
    },
    {
      "roman": "shìqíng jīngguò",
      "word": "事情经过"
    },
    {
      "roman": "shìyóu",
      "word": "事由"
    },
    {
      "roman": "yuánwěi",
      "word": "原委"
    },
    {
      "roman": "wěiqū",
      "word": "委曲"
    },
    {
      "roman": "shǐmò",
      "word": "始末"
    },
    {
      "roman": "jiūjìng",
      "word": "究竟"
    },
    {
      "roman": "jīngguò",
      "word": "經過"
    },
    {
      "roman": "jīngguò",
      "word": "经过"
    }
  ],
  "word": "本末"
}

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