ほんど – Vocabulary details

ほんど

Noun

1. mainland; the country proper

2. native country; country where one was born

3. pure land; Buddha realm

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book; volume; this; present; main; head

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

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

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

mainland China; China proper

台たい風ふうでほん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.

その島しまはほん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ほんどへフェリーで渡わたった。

We took a ferry from the island to the mainland.

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