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
- —雑文literary miscellany
- —主文main clause; main part (of a piece of writing); text (of a judicial decision)
- —重文compound sentence; sentenced formed of two independent clauses; important cultural property; important cultural asset
- —上文the foregoing; the forgoing
- —冗文redundancy
- —正文main text (as opposed to any included commentary or annotations); authentic text (e.g. of a treaty, as opposed to any translation not specified as authentic); Chinese classical literature
- —拙文poor writing
- —俗文(piece of) writing in colloquial style; vulgar writing
- —駄文poor piece of writing; my poor writing
- —単文simple sentence
- —弔文memorial address; words of condolence; funeral oration; eulogy
- —電文telegram
- —同文same text; same wording; same script; same language
- —能文skilled in writing
- —俳文prose with a poetic haiku flavor (flavour)
- —不文unwritten; illiterate; uneducated; poor writing
- —文案draft (of a document)
- —文意meaning of a sentence
- —文官civil official
- —文型sentence pattern
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