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)
Practice writing
Choose this kanji to write on five sheets. Save your practice to revisit it in My writing.
On readings
ブンモン
Kun readings
ふみあや
Words with 文
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —文豪literary master
- —文責responsibility for wording of an article
- —文節phrase; clause; basic linguistic unit in Japanese grammar
- —文調writing style
- —文例sample sentence
- —名文famous literary composition
- —明文explicit statement (e.g. in law); express provision
- —檄文written appeal; manifesto; declaration
- —案文draft; draft proposal
- —文武literary and military arts; the pen and the sword
- —文鎮paperweight
- —文旦pomelo (Citrus maxima); shaddock
- —独文German literature; German sentence
- —銘文inscription
- —文治civil administration; Bunji era (1185.8.14-1190.4.11)
- —文藻literary talent
- —告文written report to the gods; imperial edict; written appeal to a superior
- —祭文address to the gods; type of song which spread from mountain hermits to the laity during the Kamakura era
- —空文dead letter
- —跋文afterword; epilogue; postscript
Learn the words behind every kanji.
Each kanji lives in real JLPT words. Learn the words and the kanji come with them. Sign up free to get started.