文

wén

language

surname Wen; culture; writing; formal; literary; gentle; (old) classifier for coins; Kangxi radical 67

a picture of 文 → a chest marked with tattoos, meaning writing

The ancient glyph showed a person with markings on their chest — tattoos as the earliest form of symbolic inscription. From that image of marks on the body, 文 expanded to cover all written marks, language, and culture.

亠+乂→文

他说话很温和,是个有文化的人。

tā shuō huà hěn wēn hé, shì gè yǒu wén huà de rén。

he speaks very gently and is a cultured person.

这篇文章用词简单,但内容很深。

zhè piān wén zhāng yòng cí jiǎn dān, dàn nèi róng hěn shēn。

this article uses simple words, but its content is quite deep.

Words with 文

韵文

yùn wén

verse (as opposed to prose 散文[san3 wen2])

文化遗产

wén huà yí chǎn

cultural heritage

文艺作品

wén yì zuò pǐn

literary work

日文

rì wén

Japanese (language)

孙文

sūn wén

the original name of 孫中山|孙中山[Sun1 Zhong1 shan1], Dr Sun Yat-sen (1866-1925), first president of the Republic of China and co-founder of the Guomintang 國民黨|国民党[Guo2 min2 dang3]

满文

mǎn wén

Manchurian written language

贴文

tiē wén

(social media) to post; a post

天文台

tiān wén tái

astronomical observatory

成文法

chéng wén fǎ

statute

龙山文化

lóng shān wén huà

black pottery culture

新文化运动

xīn wén huà yùn dòng

the New Culture Movement (mid-1910s and 1920s), intellectual revolution against Confucianism aiming to introduce Western elements, especially democracy and science

条文

tiáo wén

clause

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