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文士

wén shì

2-character word

What 文士 means

1. literati
2. scholar

The characters in 文士

• 文wénlanguage; culture; writing
• 士shìmember of the senior ministerial class (old); scholar (old); bachelor

Sounds the same

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

• 文饰to polish a text; rhetoric; ornate language
• 纹饰decorative motif; figure

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