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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
- —斯文this academic subject or field of study; Confucian studies
- —芸文art and literature
- —短文short sentence; short piece of writing (e.g. passage, article, composition)
- —絢文colorful pattern; colourful pattern
- —復文reply letter; retranslation (into the original language)
- —文苑anthology; literary world; collection of literary masterpieces
- —文革(China's) Cultural Revolution (1966-76)
- —文博doctor of literature
- —右文respect for literary culture
- —略文abridged sentence
- —艶文love-letter
- —洋文Western word or sentence; word created by translating components of a Western word
- —文臣civil official (esp. dealing with literary matters)
- —文頭start of a sentence, phrase, etc.
- —末文phrases, etc. at the ends of letters, etc.
- —文暦Bunryaku era (1234.11.5-1235.9.19)
- —文応Bun'ō era (1260.4.13-1261.2.20)
- —文永Bun'ei era (1264.2.28-1275.4.25)
- —文保Bunpō era (1317.2.3-1319.4.28)
- —文和Bunna era (of the Northern Court; 1352.9.27-1356.3.28); Bunwa era
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