Read Edit View history 苯 běn benzene Origin Definitions Defs Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents Phonosemantic compound. 艹 represents the meaning and 本 represents the sound. Components 艹 艹 Meaning component cao, cǎo grass 艹 is a component form of 艸. 本 本 Sound component běn root Historical Pronunciations Old ChineseZhengzhangpɯːnʔ Sources Readings & variants Unicode Historical pronunciations Zhengzhang Shangfang