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文字

wén zì

2-character word Measure word 个

What 文字 means

1. character
2. script
3. writing
4. written language
5. writing style
6. phraseology

The characters in 文字

• 文wénlanguage; culture; writing
• 字zìletter; symbol; character

Example sentences

• 这是个文字游戏。
  This is a pun.
• 英文字母中有几个字母?
  How many letters are there in the alphabet?
• 文字游戏很少能被翻译。
  Wordplay rarely translates.
• 我没有时间翻译这段文字。
  Wǒ méiyǒu shíjiān fānyì zhè duàn wénzì.
  I don't have time to translate this text.
• 我昨天整天都在背英文字。
  I learned English words by heart all day yesterday.

Words starting with 文字

• 文字狱wén zì yùliterary inquisition; official persecution of intellectuals for their writing
• 文字学wén zì xuéphilology
• 文字学家wén zì xué jiāexpert on writing systems
• 文字处理wén zì chǔ lǐword processing
• 文字改革wén zì gǎi géreform of the writing system
• 文字档wén zì dàngtext file

Words containing 文字

• 象形文字xiàng xíng wén zìpictogram; hieroglyph
• 死文字sǐ wén zìdead language; indecipherable script
• 头文字tóu wén zìinitial; first letter of word (in Latin script)
• 表意文字biǎo yì wén zìideograph; ideographical writing system
• 古文字学gǔ wén zì xuépaleography
• 拉丁文字Lā dīng wén zìthe alphabet; latin letters
• 韩文字母Hán wén zì mǔhangul, Korean phonetic alphabet; Korean letters
• 颜文字yán wén zìJapanese-style emoticon, e.g. (⇀‸↼‶)
• 纯文字chún wén zìtext-only (webpage, slide etc)
• 拼音文字pīn yīn wén zìphonetic alphabet; alphabetic writing system
• 甲骨文字jiǎ gǔ wén zìoracle script; oracle bone character (an early form of Chinese script)
• 绘文字huì wén zìemoji
• 浅层文字qiǎn céng wén zìshallow orthography (governed by simple rules)
• 楔形文字xiē xíng wén zìcuneiform (Babylonian script)
• 中日韩统一表意文字Zhōng Rì Hán tǒng yī biǎo yì wén zìChina Japan Korea (CJK) unified ideographs; Unihan