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
- —文藝literature; the arts; art and literature; liberal arts
- —文園anthology; literary world; collection of literary masterpieces
- —文龜Bunki era (1501.2.29-1504.2.30)
- —文采literary embellishment; figure of speech; rhetorical flourish; beautiful coloring
- —註文annotation; explanatory note
- —五文型the five basic sentence structures of English (SV, SVC, SVO, SVOO, SVOC)
- —原文儘sic
- —文質彬々harmony of beauty and substance; (perfect) balance of looks and character; harmony of refinement and simplicity
- —猥褻文書indecent writings; pornography
- —文房四寶the four tools of writing (brush, ink, inkstone and paper)
- —原文ままsic
- —原文の儘sic
- —文芸春秋Bungeishunju (publishing company); Bungei Shunjū (magazine)
- —易しい文章easy (simple) writing
- —基本五文型the five basic sentence structures of English (SV, SVC, SVO, SVOO, SVOC)
- —和漢混交文mixed writing of literary Japanese and Chinese
- —原文のママsic
- —文学倶楽部literary club; literature club
- —かな交じり文mixed writing (kanji and kana)
- —文禄慶長の役Imjin War (1592-1597); Hideyoshi's invasions of Korea
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