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ほんど
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
1%
Pitch accent
ほ
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Used in: 20
Composed of
book; volume; this; present; main; head
Saturday; earth; dirt; land; lands; earth (third of the five elements)
Used in vocabulary (6 in total)
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
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Examples (4 in total)
All communication with the mainland was cut off by the typhoon.
The island is cut off far from the mainland.
We took a ferry from the island to the mainland.
It's forty kilometers from the island to the mainland.