Kanji1 / 4
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
- —文芸学study or science of literature; a liberal arts department
- —文芸欄literary (and the arts) column
- —文学的literary
- —文学界the literary world; literary circles
- —文学論literary criticism or theory
- —文明国civilized nation; civilised nation
- —文章語word used mainly in writing; literary language
- —文章論syntax
- —文筆家writer; author; literary person; one who lives from writing
- —文献学philology
- —文語文text written in literary style
- —文語体literary style; classical style
- —文選工type picker
- —美文調an ornate style
- —消息文personal letter; epistolary style
- —国文法Japanese grammar (esp. traditional)
- —国文科department of Japanese literature
- —名文家fine writer
- —散文的prosaic
- —散文詩prose poem
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