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
- —行文writing (style)
- —雅文elegant (literary) style
- —狂文(Edo-period) humorous literature
- —文人person of letters; literary person
- —文才literary talent
- —文士man of letters; literary man
- —文末end of a sentence
- —文名literary fame
- —文事literary matters
- —文典grammar
- —文物(the products of) culture or civilization (civilisation)
- —文政educational policies or administration; Bunsei era (1818.4.22-1830.12.10)
- —文弱(enervating) attraction to books or learning
- —文理humanities and sciences; reason; logic; line of thought (in a piece of writing); thread (of meaning)
- —文鳥Java sparrow (Lonchura oryzivora); Java rice finch
- —文集anthology
- —文運cultural progress; advance of the arts
- —文勢force of a literary style
- —文飾literary embellishments
- —文雅elegant or refined style
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