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Stroke count: 4

Readings

On readingブン、モン
Kun readingふみ、あや
JLPT level: N4JōyōGrade 1

Meanings

  1. sentenceRtK
    彼は紙に１つの文を書いたが、私にはその文が分からなかった。He wrote a sentence on the paper, but I didn't understand the sentence.tatoeba
  2. art
  3. decoration
  4. figures
  5. literary radical (no. 67)
  6. literature
    彼は米文学に精通している。He is at home in American literature.tatoeba
    文章博士を世襲。The family head served as Monjo hakase (professor of literature) by succession.wiki
  7. plan
  8. style
  1. letter
  2. note
  3. mail
  4. book
  5. writings

Synonyms

一文文章武３００

Popular Usage

作文文章文化文学文法英文人文科学原文

Radicals and components

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Mnemonic (RtK)

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plaid · kilt · Billy Connolly

From "Remembering the Kanji" by James Heisig · Frame 1861

Compound words

作文さくぶん
writing (an essay, prose, etc.); composition; formal writing with little real meaning
文章ぶんしょう
writing; composition; essay; article; passage
文化ぶんか
culture; civilization; civilisation; Bunka era (1804.2.11-1818.4.22)
文学ぶんがく
literature
文法ぶんぽう
grammar
英文えいぶん
English writing; English sentence; English text; English literature; English lit
人文科学じんぶんかがく
humanities; arts
原文げんぶん
original text
一文いちもん
tiny amount of money; a penny; a cent; a farthing; one letter
漢文かんぶん
Chinese classical writing; Chinese classics; writing composed entirely of kanji
公文こうぶん
official document; archives
散文さんぶん
prose
序文じょぶん
preface; foreword; introduction
条文じょうぶん
text (of a law, treaty, contract, etc.); provisions
前文ぜんぶん
the above sentence; the foregoing remark; preamble (to a statute, constitution, etc.); opening part of a letter (used for season's greetings, asking after someone's health, etc.)
全文ぜんぶん
whole passage; full text; whole sentence; full paragraph
注文ちゅうもん
order (for an item); request; demand; condition
天文てんもん
astronomy
縄文じょうもん
straw-rope pattern pressed into earthenware; Jōmon period (ca. 14000-1000 BCE)
碑文ひぶん
inscription; epitaph; epigraph
仏文ふつぶん
French; French writing; French literature
文科ぶんか
humanities and social sciences; liberal arts; faculty of humanities; school of liberal arts
文楽ぶんらく
bunraku; Japanese puppet theatre (theater)
文句もんく
complaint; grumbling; objection; phrase; words

On Reading Examples

彼は報告書を作文した。さくぶん
He wrote the report.tatoeba
彼は天文学、即ち天文の学問の偉大な権威であった。てんもん
He was a great authority on astronomy, or the science of the heavenly bodies.tatoeba
彼は私たちにステーキを注文してくれた。ちゅうもん
He ordered us steaks.tatoeba

Kun Reading Examples

ネットワークの発達で、かつてないほど大量の文が世界中を駆け巡っています。ふみ
With the development of networks a huge and unprecedented volume of messages flies around the world.tatoeba

Additional Examples

彼は法律の条文の意味に固執する。
He keeps to the letter of the law.tatoeba
彼は報告書を作文した。
He wrote the report.tatoeba
彼は文無しも同然だ。
He is no better than a beggar.tatoeba
文章に優れていた。
He was a good writer.wiki
古都京都の文化財
Historic Monuments of Ancient Kyotowiki
埋蔵文化財展示室
Exhibition Room of Archaeological Cultural Assetwiki
天文法華の乱で焼失する。
It was destroyed by fire in the Tenbun Hokke Disturbance.wiki
1536年、天文法難により焼失。
It was destroyed by fire in the Tenbun Disturbance in 1536.wiki

Stroke Order

4 strokes

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