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Kanji Information Sheet for 文 ( 
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| English: sentence literature style art decoration figures plan | On-Yomi: ブン モン | Kun-Yomi: ふみ あや かざり ふ も ぶんにょう |
Bushu (Radical) Info: 文 (ぶんにょう) – sentence
Henshall Mnemonic: cross is basic form of writing: try to top it
Levels: JLPT N4 | JLPT 3 (old) | Grade 1
Frequency: #190 of the 2500 most used kanji in newspapers
Frequency: #190 of the 2500 most used kanji in newspapers
Common Words and/or Phrases Using this Kanji:
Click any individual kanji to view a similar information sheet for it.Click [K] to look up the word's individual character(s) at WWWJDIC.
Click [D] to look up the word at WWWJDIC (definition is the same but other useful features exist).
Click [Jisho] to look up the word at Jisho.org.
JLPT N5 Words
JLPT N4 Words
- 文化 [ぶんか]
(n) culture; civilization [K] [D] [Jisho] - 文学 [ぶんがく]
(n) literature [K] [D] [Jisho] - 文法 [ぶんぽう]
(n) grammar [K] [D] [Jisho]
JLPT N3 Words
- 文 [ぶん]
(n) sentence [K] [D] [Jisho] - 論文 [ろんぶん]
(n) thesis; essay; treatise; paper [K] [D] [Jisho] - 注文 [ちゅうもん]
(n,vs) order; request [K] [D] [Jisho] - 文句 [もんく]
(n) phrase; complaint [K] [D] [Jisho] - 文字 [もじ]
(n) letter (of alphabet); character [K] [D] [Jisho] - 文字 [もんじ]
(n) letter (of alphabet); character [K] [D] [Jisho] - 文明 [ぶんめい]
(n) civilization; culture [K] [D] [Jisho]
JLPT N2 Words
- 人文科学 [じんぶんかがく]
social sciences; humanities [K] [D] [Jisho] - 英文 [えいぶん]
(n) sentence in English [K] [D] [Jisho] - 文芸 [ぶんげい]
(n) literature; art and literature; belles-lettres [K] [D] [Jisho] - 文献 [ぶんけん]
(n) literature; books (reference) [K] [D] [Jisho] - 文体 [ぶんたい]
(n) literary style [K] [D] [Jisho] - 文房具 [ぶんぼうぐ]
(n) stationery [K] [D] [Jisho] - 文脈 [ぶんみゃく]
(n) context [K] [D] [Jisho]
JLPT N1 Words
- 文 [ふみ]
(n) letter; writings [K] [D] [Jisho] - 文化財 [ぶんかざい]
(n) cultural assets; cultural property [K] [D] [Jisho] - 文語 [ぶんご]
(n) written language; literary language [K] [D] [Jisho] - 原文 [げんぶん]
(n) the text; original [K] [D] [Jisho] - 和文 [わぶん]
(n) Japanese text; sentence in Japanese [K] [D] [Jisho] - 文書 [ぶんしょ]
(n) document; writing; letter; paperwork; note; records; archives [K] [D] [Jisho]
Other Popular Words Not Classified by JLPT
- 大衆文学 [たいしゅうぶんがく]
popular literature [K] [D] [Jisho] - 条文 [じょうぶん]
(n) text; provisions (act, treaty) [K] [D] [Jisho] - 天文 [てんもん]
(n) astronomy [K] [D] [Jisho] - 散文 [さんぶん]
(n) prose [K] [D] [Jisho] - 天文学 [てんもんがく]
(n) astronomy [K] [D] [Jisho] - 碑文 [ひぶん]
(n) inscription; epitaph; epigraph [K] [D] [Jisho] - 天文台 [てんもんだい]
(n) astronomical observatory [K] [D] [Jisho] - 仏文 [ふつぶん]
(n) French; French writing; French literature [K] [D] [Jisho] - 人文 [じんぶん]
(n) humanity; civilization; culture [K] [D] [Jisho] - 前文 [ぜんぶん]
(n) preamble; the above statement [K] [D] [Jisho] - 頭文字 [かしらもじ]
(n) initials; first letter of a word [K] [D] [Jisho] - 横文字 [よこもじ]
(n) European writing; cross-wise writing [K] [D] [Jisho] - 異文 [いぶん]
(n) strange tale; another story; variant (reading); strange report or tale [K] [D] [Jisho] - 文化遺産 [ぶんかいさん]
(n) cultural heritage [K] [D] [Jisho] - 文化勲章 [ぶんかくんしょう]
Order of Cultural Merit (award) [K] [D] [Jisho] - 重要文化財 [じゅうようぶんかざい]
important national treasure; important cultural property [K] [D] [Jisho] - 文化人 [ぶんかじん]
(n) person of culture; cultured person [K] [D] [Jisho] - 文化庁 [ぶんかちょう]
(Japanese) Agency for Cultural Affairs [K] [D] [Jisho] - 文化的 [ぶんかてき]
(adj-na) cultural [K] [D] [Jisho] - 文科 [ぶんか]
(n) (1) literary course; (2) the arts [K] [D] [Jisho] - 英文学 [えいぶんがく]
(n) English literature [K] [D] [Jisho] - 漢文 [かんぶん]
(n) Chinese (classical) literature [K] [D] [Jisho] - 全文 [ぜんぶん]
(n) whole passage; full text; whole sentence; full paragraph [K] [D] [Jisho] - 国文学 [こくぶんがく]
(n) Japanese literature [K] [D] [Jisho] - 文学者 [ぶんがくしゃ]
(n) literary person [K] [D] [Jisho]
Acknowledgments
The sofware used to generate this kanji information uses the EDICT and KANJIDIC files. These files are the property of the Electronic Dictionary Research and Development Group at Monash University and are used in conformance with the Group's license.NOTE: I converted the sources just mentioned years ago and have never really updated so there may be some missing or incorrect information that has been addressed in the original sources but not here.
The first Stroke Order image used on this page is courtesy of Ulrich Apel's excellent open source KanjiVG project. The second image is from the folks at the excellent Jisho Japanese-English dictionary site and it too is based on KanjiVG.
Classifying the kanji and popular vocabulary by the new JLPT levels was done by consulting Jonathan Waller‘s JLPT Resources page, renshuu, Wictionary, and Nihongo Ichiban.
The Henshall Mnemonics are the copyright of Tuttle Publishing and are the result of the hard work by Professor Henshall. See the list I used here.
If you are curious about the lexicography shown in the word definitions, visit the WWWJDIC abbreviations and codes guide and the JMdict/Edict Lexicographical details page.