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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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ブンモン
Kun readings
ふみあや
Words with 文
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —性愛文学erotic literature
- —原文ママsic
- —自伝文学autobiography; autobiographical literature
- —化政文化merchant class culture that flourished in Edo during the Bunka-Bunsei period
- —文武不岐scholarship and swordsmanship are one and the same; the literary and the military are the same path
- —文法学者grammarian
- —四大文法the four great Japanese grammar texts (Yamada, Matsushita, Hashimoto and Tokieda)
- —傾向文学ideological literature (esp. left-wing)
- —近代文明modern civilization; modern world
- —安全文化safety culture
- —異文化間cross-cultural; intercultural
- —英米文学British and American literature
- —欧文間隔half-width space
- —文禄の役first Japanese invasion of Korea (1592-93)
- —文化協会cultural association
- —文学革命literary revolution (of China; post-1917 emphasis on vernacular forms)
- —文法範疇grammatical category
- —機能文法functional grammar
- —形式文法formal grammar
- —龍山文化Longshan culture (China, 3000-1900 BCE); Lung-shan culture; Black Pottery culture
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