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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On readings
ブンモン
Kun readings
ふみあや
Words with 文
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —大衆文学Popularpopular literature
- —文化勲章PopularOrder of Culture (Japan); Order of Cultural Merit (South Korea)
- —文化遺産Popularcultural heritage
- —伝統文化Populartraditional culture
- —重要文化財Popularimportant cultural property; important cultural asset
- —無形文化財Popularintangible cultural asset
- —悪文bad style; poor writing
- —遺文literary remains
- —一文a sentence; one sentence; (short) piece of writing
- —逸文lost work; lost writings; partially lost work; literary fragment; work that survives through quotations; work of a superior quality
- —陰文lettering of an engraving
- —韻文verse; poetry
- —横文horizontal (Western) writing
- —欧文writing in a European language; European text; Roman letters
- —回文circular (document); circulating letter; palindrome
- —戯文humorous writing
- —欠文piece of writing with a missing part; missing part (sentence, passage, etc.); lacuna
- —候文epistolary style using the auxiliary "sōrō" in place of "aru"
- —構文sentence structure; grammatical construction; syntax
- —国文national literature
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