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文献

wén xiàn

Old HSK 6 HSK 3.0 level 6 2-character word Traditional 文獻

文献 (wén xiàn) means "document; (academic) literature". It is an HSK 3.0 level 6 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 文献 means

1. reference material (used in scholarly study)

The characters in 文献

• 文wénlanguage; culture; writing
• 献xiànto offer; to present; to dedicate

Example sentences

• 你必须每天背一篇古典文献。
  You should memorize a piece of classical literature every day.

Words starting with 文献

• 文献学wén xiàn xuéPhilology; Historical Linguistics

Words containing 文献

• 参考文献cān kǎo wén xiàncited material; reference (to the literature); bibliography

Sounds the same

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

• 文县Wen County or Wenxian, a county in Longnan City 陇南市

Where 文献 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 6 Vocabulary · wèi–wén (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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• Every HSK 6 word, with the rest of its level.
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