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作文

zuò wén

Old HSK 5 HSK 3.0 level 4 2-character word Measure word 篇

作文 (zuò wén) means "essay; to write an essay". It is an HSK 3.0 level 4 word, and was HSK 5 in the old six-level list.

What 作文 means

1. to write an essay
2. composition (student essay)

The characters in 作文

• 作zuòto do; to engage in; to write; to compose; to pretend; to feign
• 文wénlanguage; culture; writing

Where 作文 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of Academic Topics & Questions (HSK 5), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

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