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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
- N1文化財Popularcultural assets; cultural property
- —漢文PopularChinese classical writing; Chinese classics; writing composed entirely of kanji
- —公文Popularofficial document; archives
- —散文Popularprose
- —序文Popularpreface; foreword; introduction
- —条文Populartext (of a law, treaty, contract, etc.); provisions
- —前文Popularthe above sentence; the foregoing remark; preamble (to a statute, constitution, etc.); opening part of a letter (used for season's greetings, asking after someone's health, etc.)
- —全文Popularwhole passage; full text; whole sentence; full paragraph
- —碑文Popularinscription; epitaph; epigraph
- —仏文PopularFrench; French writing; French literature
- —文科Popularhumanities and social sciences; liberal arts; faculty of humanities; school of liberal arts
- —文楽Popularbunraku; Japanese puppet theatre (theater)
- —文系Popularhumanities, social sciences, and fine arts; liberal arts
- —文庫Popularlibrary; book collection; paperback book
- —文壇Popularliterary world; literary circles
- —文中Popularin the sentence; in the text; Bunchū era (of the Southern Court; 1372.4.?-1375.5.27)
- —文通Popularcorrespondence; exchange of letters
- —文筆Popularliterary art; literary activity; writing
- —文民Popularcivilian
- —文面Popularcontents of a document (esp. of a letter)
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