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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
- —文芸家man of letters; writer
- —受身文passive sentence
- —受動文passive sentence
- —本論文this thesis; this article; the article under consideration
- —入力文input sentence; input statement
- —文章法method of writing; syntax
- —文庫版paperback edition
- —現代文contemporary writing; modern text; modern Japanese writing; modern Japanese (as a school subject); literature written since the Meiji period
- —倒置文inverted sentence
- —文学書book; literary work
- —文脈化contextualization
- —文芸誌literary magazine
- —八股文eight-legged essay (classical Chinese style of essay writing)
- —文具店stationery store; stationery shop; stationer's
- —文明人civilized person; civilized people
- —訓読文kanbun converted into literary Japanese
- —俗文体colloquial language style; everyday language style
- —普通文normal style of writing; modern Japanese text; text written in literary style with mixed kanji and kana (until the Taisho era)
- —漢文典dictionary of kanbun grammar and usage
- —和文体literary style from the Heian era onwards, mainly in kana and written by women
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