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
- —文章題story (verbal) problem; problem expressed in words
- —文法書grammar (book)
- —小論文short essay; pamphlet; tract
- —通信文message
- —声明文proclamation; statement
- —文化省Ministry of Culture (e.g. in China)
- —石刻文stone inscription; epigraphy
- —鐘鼎文bronze-vessel and bell inscriptions
- —文章体literary style
- —手紙文epistolary style; epistolary phrase
- —投稿文written contribution; submission (to a newspaper, online forum, etc.)
- —感動文exclamatory sentence; exclamation
- —感嘆文exclamatory sentence; exclamation
- —主祷文the Lord's Prayer
- —文芸部literary club (e.g. at school); literary section (e.g. newspaper)
- —烏文木ebony
- —宣伝文blurb
- —５文型the five basic sentence structures of English (SV, SVC, SVO, SVOO, SVOC)
- —文否定sentential negation; sentence negation; statement negation
- —文明史history of civilization
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