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Translingual
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Han character
文 (radical 67, 文+0, 4 strokes, cangjie input 卜大 (YK), four-corner 00400, composition ⿱亠乂)
- Kangxi radical #67, ⽂.
Derived characters
- Index:Chinese radical/文
References
- KangXi: page 477, character 1
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 13450
- Dae Jaweon: page 831, character 39
- Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 2169, character 1
- Unihan data for U+6587
Chinese
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Glyph origin
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| Shang | Western Zhou | Warring States | Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) | Liushutong (compiled in Ming) |
| Oracle bone script | Bronze inscriptions | Chu Slip and silk script | Small seal script | Transcribed ancient scripts |
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| 旻 | *mrɯn |
| 旼 | *mrɯn |
| 汶 | *mrɯn, *mɯn, *mɯns |
| 忞 | *mrɯn |
| 盿 | *mrɯn |
| 枚 | *mɯːl |
| 玫 | *mɯːl |
| 玟 | *mɯːl |
| 文 | *mɯn |
| 紋 | *mɯn |
| 蚊 | *mɯn |
| 雯 | *mɯn |
| 彣 | *mɯn |
| 馼 | *mɯn |
| 鳼 | *mɯn |
| 鼤 | *mɯn, *mɯns |
| 抆 | *mɯnʔ, *mɯns |
| 紊 | *mɯns |
Ideogram (指事) : a man with a painted or tattooed chest – original form of 紋. In current form, tattoo has vanished, so simply an outline of a man (head, outstretched arms, legs, chest). Compare 大, which has no chest.
Pronunciation 1
Definitions
文
- † Original form of 紋／纹 (wén, “mark, pattern, design, tattoo, decoration”).
- Original form of 紋／纹 (wén, “to tattoo”).
- writing; literary composition; literature (Classifier: 篇 c)
- literary
- Short for 文讀／文读 (wéndú, “literary reading”).
- written language
- culture
- civil, civilian
- refined; educated; cultured; intellectual
- 47th tetragram of the Taixuanjing
- † Classifier for coins.
- A surname.
Pronunciation 2
Definitions
文
- to cover
Pronunciation 3
| For pronunciation and definitions of 文 – see 蚊 (“(Cantonese) yuan; dollar; buck”). (This character, 文, is a variant form of 蚊.) |
Compounds
Derived terms from 文
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Japanese
Kanji
文
Readings
Etymology 1
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| 文 |
| もん Grade: 1 |
| on’yomi |
From Middle Chinese 文 (mjun, “ornate; a kind of coin; language, literature, a letter, a character”).
Pronunciation
Noun
- the mon, an old currency
- a unit of length for measuring the size of one's foot (from the way that the mon coins would be lined up and used as a kind of inch marker)
- a character, a letter
- writing, something written
- a magical spell
- (also spelled 紋) a design, a pattern
- (also spelled 紋) a 家紋 (kamon, “family crest”)
Usage notes
Derived terms
Etymology 2
| Kanji in this term |
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| 文 |
| ぶん Grade: 1 |
| on’yomi |
A later borrowing from Middle Chinese. Compare modern Min Nan reading bûn, Hakka vûn.
Pronunciation
Noun
- (grammar) a sentence
- writing, composition
- a design or pattern as decoration
- literature, learning, scholarship
- elegance, refinement (especially of writing or wording)
- a saying, an aphorism, a proverb
Derived terms
Derived terms
- 文案 (bun'an)
- 文意 (bun'i)
- 文化 (bunka)
- 文官 (bunkan): a civil servant, a public official
- 文学 (bungaku): literature
- 文芸 (bungei)
- 文言 (bungen): the phrasing or wording of a piece of writing; in Chinese contexts, the written style or register as opposed to the spoken style or register
- 文豪 (bungō)
- 文才 (bunsai)
- 文書 (bunsho)
- 文章 (bunshō)
- 文人 (bunjin)
- 文責 (bunseki)
- 文体 (buntai)
- 文筆 (bunpitsu): writing, literary work, literature
- 文法 (bunpō): grammar
- 文末 (bunmatsu)
- 文脈 (bunmyaku): genre
- 文民 (bunmin)
- 文明 (bunmei): civilization
- 文面 (bunmen)
- 論文 (ronbun): thesis
- 博士論文 (hakushi ronbun): a Ph.D. thesis
- 礼文島 (rebuntō): Rebun Island
Etymology 3
| Kanji in this term |
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| 文 |
| ふみ Grade: 1 |
| kun’yomi |
Possibly a shift from an older Middle Chinese-derived reading pun.[3] Earlier Japanese writing was ambiguous regarding the final n sound spelled ん in modern Japanese, with this sound often spelled (and possibly pronounced) as む (mu) instead.
*/pumu/ → /pumi/ → /ɸumi/
This reading appears in the Heian period, in works such as The Tale of Genji.[3][1]
Pronunciation
Noun
- writing, something written
- a letter (written communication), an epistle
- (archaic) study, scholarship (especially of classical Chinese)
- a style of 家紋 (kamon, “family crest”)
Synonyms
- (letter, epistle): 手紙 (tegami)
Derived terms
Derived terms
- 恋文 (koibumi): a love letter
Etymology 4
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| 文 |
| あや Grade: 1 |
| kun’yomi |
Uncertain. Appears in texts from the early Heian period.[3][1]
Pronunciation
Noun
- (also spelled 紋, 綾)
- a pattern, a design, especially one with diagonally crossing lines
- a diagonal crossing
- a flowery expression or turn of phrase
- a plot, a scheme
- a refrain or recurring phrase in a piece of music
- a harder vein or grain in a leaf or piece of wood or bamboo
- a stain, a blemish
- a mediator, a go-between (apparently from the way that a go-between can make the relationship more indirect and indistinct)
- a small indistinct fluctuation in a trend line
- (also spelled 綾, 絢)
Usage notes
For the second group of senses, the 綾 spelling is more common.
Derived terms
Derived terms
- 奇 (aya), 怪 (aya): mystifying, mysterious, strange (from the way that an aya pattern could confound the eyes)
- 綾織 (ayaori): a twill weave; someone who weaves twill
- 綾竹 (ayadake): in a loom, a bamboo pole placed between the heddle and the back-beam or platen, used to improve the handling
- 綾取り (ayatori): cat's cradle
References
Korean
Hanja
文 (eumhun 글월 문 (geurwol mun))
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Compounds
Vietnamese
Han character
Compounds
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