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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
- —翻訳指示文compiler directing statement
- —連文節変換group paragraph conversion
- —文芸評論家literary critic
- —文芸批評家literary critic
- —文は人なりthe style is the man; the style is the man himself
- —文書印紙税document duty stamp
- —エーゲ文明Aegean civilization (civilisation)
- —二文化主義biculturalism
- —論文式試験essay-type test; essay-based examination
- —文化博物館cultural museum; museum of culture
- —漢文訓読文kanbun converted into literary Japanese
- —否定疑問文negative question; question asked in the negative (e.g. "Can't you read Japanese?")
- —異文化交流cultural exchange; cross-cultural communication; contacts between different cultures
- —旧石器文化Palaeolithic culture; Paleolithic culture
- —和漢混淆文mixed writing of literary Japanese and Chinese
- —自然文検索searching with natural language; natural sentence search
- —読書感想文book report
- —近代文学館museum of modern literature
- —パナマ文書Panama Papers
- —新文化運動New Culture Movement (revolutionary movement in China, 1917-1921)
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