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
- —文範model composition
- —文選type-picking; anthology; selection of literary works
- —文題subject; theme
- —美文flowery prose
- —邦文Japanese (language)
- —律文legal provisions; verse
- —訳文translated sentence; translated passage; translation; version; rendering
- —売文hack writer
- —衍文(inadvertent) redundancy in a text
- —成文written expression; writing
- —死文dead letter; meaningless writing
- —達文skilled writing
- —長文long sentence; long piece of writing (e.g. passage, letter, article, telegram)
- —脱文missing passage; lacuna
- —漫文random jottings; rambling essays
- —時文modern literature
- —詩文poetry and prose; literature; literary works
- —複文complex sentence; sentence with an independent clause and at least one dependent clause
- —難文difficult sentence
- —白文unpunctuated Chinese texts
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