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文 kanji
sentence, literature, style, art, decoration, figures, plan, literary radical (no. 67)
- JLPT level
- N4 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N5 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 4
- School grade
- Grade 1 (elementary school)
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On readings
ブンモン
Kun readings
ふみあや
Words with 文
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —延文Enbun era (of the Northern Court; 1356.3.28-1361.3.29)
- —文安Bun'an era (1444.2.5-1449.7.28); Bunnan era
- —文正Bunshō era (1466.2.28-1467.3.5)
- —文亀Bunki era (1501.2.29-1504.2.30)
- —天文Tenbun era (1532.7.29-1555.10.23)
- —文禄Bunroku era (1592.12.8-1596.10.27)
- —寛文Kanbun era (1661.4.25-1673.9.21)
- —元文Genbun era (1736.4.28-1741.2.27)
- —文久Bunkyū era (1861.2.19-1864.2.20)
- —文繞kanji "literature" radical (radical 67)
- —文匣document chest
- —籀文large seal script (dating from China's Spring and Autumn period onward)
- —平文plain text; unciphered text
- —非文non-sentence; ungrammatical sentence
- —混文compound-complex sentence
- —誤文ungrammatical sentence
- —金文Chinese bronze inscriptions; type of lettering used on metal objects, especially in China during the Yin and Zhou dynasties
- —文尾end of a sentence; sentence final
- —乱文poor writing; bad writing; rambling prose
- —文彩literary embellishment; figure of speech; rhetorical flourish; beautiful coloring
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