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文

wén

HSK 3 Character

What 文 means

1. language
2. culture
3. writing
4. formal
5. literary
6. gentle
7. oldclassifier for coins
8. Kangxi radical 67

Other readings

文 is 多音字 — it is read more than one way, and the reading changes the meaning.

• Wénsurname Wen

Example sentences

• 参见上文。
  Cānjiàn shàngwén.
  See above.
• 我学英文。
  I'm learning English.
• 我教中文。
  I teach Chinese.
• 我写中文。
  I write Chinese.
• 她讲中文。
  She speaks Chinese.
• 她说中文。
  She speaks Chinese.

Words starting with 文

• 文化wén huàculture; civilization; cultural
• 文章wén zhāngarticle; essay; literary works
• 文学wén xuéliterature
• 文字wén zìcharacter; script; writing
• 文件wén jiàndocument; file
• 文明wén míngcivilized; civilization; culture
• 文具wén jùstationery; item of stationery (pen, pencil, eraser, pencil sharpener etc)
• 文艺wén yìliterature and art
• 文物wén wùcultural relic; historical relic
• 文献wén xiànreference material (used in scholarly study)
• 文凭wén píngdiploma
• 文雅wén yǎelegant; refined
• 文革Wén géCultural Revolution (1966-76) (abbr. for 文化大革命
• 文本wén běna text (article, script, contract etc); version of a text…
• 文人wén réncultivated individual; scholar; literati
• 文化大革命Wén huà Dà gé mìngCultural Revolution (1966-1976)
• 文科wén kēliberal arts; humanities
• 文摘wén zhāidigest (of literature); to make a digest (of data); summary
• 文集wén jícollected works
• 文档wén dàng(computer) file; document; documentation
• 文书wén shūdocument; official correspondence; secretary
• 文体wén tǐgenre of writing; literary form; style
• 文件夹wén jiàn jiāfolder; file (paper)
• 文静wén jìng(of a person's manner or character) gentle and quiet

Words containing 文

• 中文Zhōng wénChinese language
• 英文Yīng wénEnglish (language)
• 论文lùn wénpaper; treatise; thesis
• 作文zuò wénto write an essay; composition (student essay)
• 散文sǎn wén(broadly) prose (as opposed to verse); (more narrowly) free-form literary prose, such as…
• 斯文sī wénrefined; educate; cultured
• 天文tiān wénastronomy
• 全文quán wénentire text; full text
• 语文yǔ wénliterature and language; (mainland) Chinese (as a school subject)
• 本文běn wénthis text; article; the main body of a book
• 课文kè wéntext
• 人文rén wénhumanities; culture; humanistic
• 原文yuán wénoriginal text
• 正文zhèng wénmain text (as opposed to footnotes); main body (of a book)
• 日文Rì wénJapanese (language)
• 德文Dé wénGerman (language)
• 征文zhēng wénto solicit articles, essays or pieces of literature…
• 法文Fǎ wénFrench language
• 译文yì wéntranslated text
• 俄文É wénRussian language
• 华文Huá wénChinese language; Chinese script
• 外文wài wénforeign language (written)
• 短文duǎn wénshort piece; article; short essay
• 经文jīng wénscripture; scriptures

Characters that look like 文

Easy to confuse on sight. Compare them side by side once and the pair stops costing you.

• 大dàbig; large; great; older (than another person); eldest (as in 大姐
• 发fāto send out; to show (one's feeling); to issue
• 支zhīto support; to sustain; to erect
• 失shīto lose; to miss; to fail
• 史shǐhistory; annals; title of an official historian in ancient China
• 丈zhàngmeasure of length, ten Chinese feet (3.3 m); to measure; husband

Sounds the same

Read wén, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 闻to hear; news; well-known
• 纹line; trace; mark; pattern; grain (of wood etc); to tattoo
• 雯multicolored clouds
• 蚊mosquito
• 玟veins in jade
• 阌wen xiang, Henan province
• 炆(Cantonese) to simmer; to cook over a slow fire
• 閺to look down
• 珳old variant of 玟
• 蚉old variant of 蚊