文 (wén)

language; culture; writing; literature

How 文 is written

Strokes: 4
Traditional: 文
Simplified: 文 (unchanged)

Common words using 文

中文 zhōngwén: Chinese; Chinese written language; Chinese writing
博文 bówén: blog article; to write a blog article (netspeak)
原文 yuánwén: original text
文化 wénhuà: culture; civilization; cultural
文字 wénzì: character; script; writing
文章 wénzhāng: article; essay; literary works
文藝 wényì: literature and art
英文 yīngwén: English (language)
一文不值 yīwénbùzhí: worthless (idiom); no use whatsoever
三文魚 sānwényú: salmon
人文 rénwén: humanities; human affairs; culture
作文 zuòwén: to write an essay; composition (student essay); CL:篇[pian1]

文 in a sentence

他的中文說得非常流利。

Tā de Zhōngwén shuō de fēicháng liúlì.

“He speaks Chinese very fluently.”

How common is 文?

文 is the 148th most frequent character in written Chinese. Characters up to this rank account for about 49.5% of all running text.

Characters that appear with 文

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