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散文

sǎn wén

Old HSK 6 HSK 3.0 level 6 2-character word

散文 (sǎn wén) means "prose". It is an HSK 3.0 level 6 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 散文 means

1. (broadly) prose (as opposed to verse)
2. (more narrowly) free-form literary prose, such as essays, sketches and reflections

The characters in 散文

• 散sànto scatter; to break up (a meeting etc); to disperse
• 文wénlanguage; culture; writing

Example sentences

• 昨天我们写了我们的散文。
  Zuótiān wǒmen xiě le wǒmen de sǎnwén.
  Yesterday we wrote our essays.
• 他不是诗人；他写的是散文。
  Tā bù shì shīrén; tā xiě de shì sǎnwén.
  He isn't a poet; he's a prose writer.
• 他不是诗人；他是个散文作家。
  Tā bù shì shīrén; tā shì gè sǎnwén zuòjiā.
  He isn't a poet; he's a prose writer.
• 我们亲爱的父亲每周都会给我们阅读散文，好让我们认识到世界的美好之处。
  Our beloved father would read us some prose every week to better our understanding of the world's beauty.

Words starting with 散文

• 散文诗sǎn wén shīprose poem

Where 散文 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 6 Vocabulary · chà–shǎn (HSK 6), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

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