Confused with Kanji and Katakana/Hiragana. So I just started learning Japanese from the Genki textbooks but I'm already confused with the first explanation that I found in this book. The books says that the kanji ''本'' means ''Book'', but then it shows that you read it as ホソ or もと which are pronounced as ''hoso'' or ''moto'', if I got that right. But when I put ホソ or もと into a translator, they both show a different word instead of book and they are also pronounced different than the kanji ''本''. So what got me confused was how do I pronounce ''本'', how do I write it down or read it?