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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ブンモン
Kun readings
ふみあや
Words with 文
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —文化交流cultural exchange
- —文教の府fountainhead of culture; Ministry of Education
- —文質彬彬harmony of beauty and substance; (perfect) balance of looks and character; harmony of refinement and simplicity
- —文治主義governing by law and reason rather than by military force
- —亡命文学exile literature
- —卒業論文graduation thesis
- —物質文明material civilization; material civilisation
- —文化国家country with a high level of culture
- —文化映画cultural film
- —文民統制civilian control (of the military)
- —文学博士Doctor of Literature
- —文明開化civilization and enlightenment; Japan's Westernization movement during the Meiji era (Westernisation)
- —文房具屋stationery shop; a stationer
- —文武両道being accomplished in both the literary and military arts; doing well in both school and sports
- —文書偽造forgery of documents
- —文教地区school zone
- —日記文学literature written in diary form
- —不文憲法uncodified constitution; unwritten constitution
- —国文学史history of Japanese literature
- —言文一致unification of the written and spoken forms of a language
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