Illustration: In a small Japanese ceramics workshop, an apprentice holds an elaborately decorated teapot beside a plain, undecorated one. The older potter tips both simultaneously, sending two equally clean streams of tea into matching cups.

JLPT N1nounLevel estimated by Bebop

本ほん質しつ

honshitsu

essence, true nature

Example sentences

  1. 評判ひょうばんとは外見がいけんであり、人格じんかくとは人ひとの本質ほんしつである。

    Reputation is what you seem; character is what you are.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  2. 親切心しんせつしんは礼儀れいぎの本質ほんしつである。

    Kindness is the essence of politeness.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  3. 問題もんだいは、その本質ほんしつよりもむしろ外観がいかんである。

    The question is not so much what it is as how it looks.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

Kanji in 本質

  • 本book; presentOnホンKunもと
  • 質substance; qualityOnシツ・シチ・チKunたち・ただす・もと

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