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文章

wén zhāng

Old HSK 4 HSK 3.0 level 4 2-character word Measure word 篇、段、页

文章 (wén zhāng) means "article / essay". It is an HSK 3.0 level 4 word, and was HSK 4 in the old six-level list.

What 文章 means

1. article
2. essay
3. literary works
4. writings
5. hidden meaning

The characters in 文章

• 文wénlanguage; culture; writing
• 章zhāngchapter; section; clause

Example sentences

• 这文章是胡说。
  Zhè wénzhāng shì húshuō.
  This article is nonsense.
• 你看文章了没？
  You read the paper?
• 我想写篇文章。
  I want to write an article.
• 这篇文章很好。
  This article is very good.
• 他的话里有文章。
  There's another meaning behind his words.
• 这文章胡说八道。
  This article is nonsense.

Words containing 文章

• 做文章zuò wén zhāngto make an issue of sth; to fuss; to make a song and dance
• 大有文章dà yǒu wén zhāngsome deeper meaning in this; more to it than meets the eye; there's sth behind all this
• 表面文章biǎo miàn wén zhāngsuperficial show; going through the motions
• 官样文章guān yàng wén zhāngofficialese; red tape

Sounds the same

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

• 纹章coat of arms

Where 文章 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of Language & media (HSK 4), 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 4 word, with the rest of its level.
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