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文
wén
What 文 means
- language
- culture
- writing
- formal
- literary
- gentle
- oldclassifier for coins
- Kangxi radical 67
Other readings
Example sentences
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参见上文。Cānjiàn shàngwén.See above.
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我学英文。I'm learning English.
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我教中文。I teach Chinese.
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我写中文。I write Chinese.
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她讲中文。She speaks Chinese.
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她说中文。She speaks Chinese.
Words starting with 文
- 文化wén huàculture; civilization; cultural
- 文章wén zhāngarticle; essay; literary works
- 文学wén xuéliterature
- 文字wén zìcharacter; script; writing
- 文件wén jiàndocument; file
- 文明wén míngcivilized; civilization; culture
- 文具wén jùstationery; item of stationery (pen, pencil, eraser, pencil sharpener etc)
- 文艺wén yìliterature and art
- 文物wén wùcultural relic; historical relic
- 文献wén xiànreference material (used in scholarly study)
- 文凭wén píngdiploma
- 文雅wén yǎelegant; refined
- 文革Wén géCultural Revolution (1966-76) (abbr. for 文化大革命
- 文本wén běna text (article, script, contract etc); version of a text…
- 文人wén réncultivated individual; scholar; literati
- 文化大革命Wén huà Dà gé mìngCultural Revolution (1966-1976)
- 文科wén kēliberal arts; humanities
- 文摘wén zhāidigest (of literature); to make a digest (of data); summary
- 文集wén jícollected works
- 文档wén dàng(computer) file; document; documentation
- 文书wén shūdocument; official correspondence; secretary
- 文体wén tǐgenre of writing; literary form; style
- 文件夹wén jiàn jiāfolder; file (paper)
- 文静wén jìng(of a person's manner or character) gentle and quiet
Words containing 文
- 中文Zhōng wénChinese language
- 英文Yīng wénEnglish (language)
- 论文lùn wénpaper; treatise; thesis
- 作文zuò wénto write an essay; composition (student essay)
- 散文sǎn wén(broadly) prose (as opposed to verse); (more narrowly) free-form literary prose, such as…
- 斯文sī wénrefined; educate; cultured
- 天文tiān wénastronomy
- 全文quán wénentire text; full text
- 语文yǔ wénliterature and language; (mainland) Chinese (as a school subject)
- 本文běn wénthis text; article; the main body of a book
- 课文kè wéntext
- 人文rén wénhumanities; culture; humanistic
- 原文yuán wénoriginal text
- 正文zhèng wénmain text (as opposed to footnotes); main body (of a book)
- 日文Rì wénJapanese (language)
- 德文Dé wénGerman (language)
- 征文zhēng wénto solicit articles, essays or pieces of literature…
- 法文Fǎ wénFrench language
- 译文yì wéntranslated text
- 俄文É wénRussian language
- 华文Huá wénChinese language; Chinese script
- 外文wài wénforeign language (written)
- 短文duǎn wénshort piece; article; short essay
- 经文jīng wénscripture; scriptures
Characters that look like 文
Easy to confuse on sight. Compare them side by side once and the pair stops costing you.
- 大dàbig; large; great; older (than another person); eldest (as in 大姐
- 发fāto send out; to show (one's feeling); to issue
- 支zhīto support; to sustain; to erect
- 失shīto lose; to miss; to fail
- 史shǐhistory; annals; title of an official historian in ancient China
- 丈zhàngmeasure of length, ten Chinese feet (3.3 m); to measure; husband
Sounds the same
Read wén, tone for tone, but written differently.
- 闻to hear; news; well-known
- 纹line; trace; mark; pattern; grain (of wood etc); to tattoo
- 雯multicolored clouds
- 蚊mosquito
- 玟veins in jade
- 阌wen xiang, Henan province
- 炆(Cantonese) to simmer; to cook over a slow fire
- 閺to look down
- 珳old variant of 玟
- 蚉old variant of 蚊
Where 文 is taught
In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 3 Characters · Set 16 (HSK 3), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.
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- Every HSK 3 word, with the rest of its level.
- How characters are built from components.
- How to learn Chinese characters.
- The four tones and the neutral tone, to read wén correctly.
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