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文件

wén jiàn

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

文件 (wén jiàn) means "document, file". It is an HSK 3.0 level 4 word, and was HSK 5 in the old six-level list.

What 文件 means

1. document
2. file

The characters in 文件

• 文wénlanguage; culture; writing
• 件jiànitem; component; classifier for events, things, clothes etc

Example sentences

• 我签了文件。
  I signed the document.
• 文件已损坏。
  The file is corrupt.
• 我签署了文件。
  Wǒ qiānshǔ le wénjiàn.
  I signed the document.
• 汤姆看了文件。
  Tom saw the file.
• 了解这份文件。
  Learn about this documentation.
• 文件被风刮起来。
  The papers blew off.

Words starting with 文件

• 文件夹wén jiàn jiāfolder; file (paper)
• 文件大小wén jiàn dà xiǎofile size
• 文件格式wén jiàn gé shìfile format
• 文件服务器wén jiàn fú wù qìfile server

Words containing 文件

• 电子文件diàn zǐ wén jiànelectronic document
• 证明文件zhèng míng wén jiànidentification document; documentary proof
• 机密文件jī mì wén jiànsecret document
• 超文件chāo wén jiànhypertext
• 音频文件yīn pín wén jiànaudio file (computer)
• 绝密文件jué mì wén jiàntop secret document; classified papers
• 红头文件hóng tóu wén jiànred-letterhead document, an official document with the name of the issuing government…
• 映象文件yìng xiàng wén jiàn(computing) disk image (aka image file); ISO image
• 超文件传输协定chāo wén jiàn chuán shū xié dìnghypertext transfer protocol; HTTP

Sounds the same

Read wén jiàn, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 闻见to smell; to hear; knowledge

Where 文件 is taught

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

Go deeper

• Every HSK 5 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read wén jiàn correctly.
• Look up another word in the free dictionary.