(ほん) (n) (1) (See ご本・ごほん) book; volume; (pref) (2) main; head; this; our; present; real; (ctr) (3) counter for long cylindrical things; counter for films, TV shows, etc.; counter for goals, home runs, etc.; (P) [EDICT]
(běn, ㄅㄣˇ) roots or stems of plants; origin; source; this; the current; root; foundation; basis; (classifier for books, periodicals, files etc) [CE-DICT]
局
(きょく) (n,n-suf) (1) channel (i.e. TV or radio); station; department; (2) affair; situation; (P) [EDICT]
(つぼね) (n) (1) court lady; lady-in-waiting (Heian period); (2) (See 曹司・1) separate room in a palace (esp. for a lady) (Heian period); (3) room for a very low class prostitute; (4) (See 局女郎) very low class prostitute [EDICT]
(くう) (n) (1) empty air; sky; (2) {Buddh} shunya (emptiness, the lack of an immutable intrinsic nature within any phemomenon); (3) (abbr) (See 空軍) air force; (n,adj-na) (4) fruitlessness; meaninglessness; (5) (See 五大・1) void (one of the five elements) [EDICT]
(そら) (n) sky; the heavens; (P) [EDICT]
(kōng, ㄎㄨㄥ) air; sky; empty; free time; in vain [CE-DICT]
(kòng, ㄎㄨㄥˋ) emptied; leisure [CE-DICT]
前
(ぜん) (n-pref) (1) (See 前・まえ) the last (i.e. immediately preceding) (e.g. "the last mayor"); previous; one-time; former; (2) (before the name of an era) pre- (e.g. "premodern"); (adj-no,n) (3) before; earlier; (P) [EDICT]
(まえ) (n-adv,n-t,suf) (1) (See 前・ぜん) ago; before (some event); previously; (minutes) to (the hour); (2) in front (of); before (e.g. the house); (3) head (of a line); front (e.g. of a bus); fore part; (4) in the presence of; (5) (See 人前・にんまえ) helping; portion; (6) privates; private parts; (P) [EDICT]
(qián, ㄑㄧㄢˊ) before; in front; ago; former; previous; earlier; front [CE-DICT]