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[edit] Etymology
Ideogram (指事): a man with a painted or tattooed chest. In current form, tattoo has vanished, so simply an outline of a man (head, outstretched arms, legs, chest). Compare 大, which has no chest.
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| Oracle bone script | Bronze inscriptions | Large seal script | Small seal script |
[edit] Han character
文 (radical 67 文+0, 4 strokes, cangjie input 卜大 (YK), four-corner 00400)
- literature, culture, writing
- used as a surname
[edit] 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
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文 (jyutping man4, man6, Yale man4)
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- (grammar) sentence
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文
Eumhun:
- Sound (hangeul): 문 (revised: mun, McCune-Reischauer: mun, Yale: mun)
- Name (hangeul): 글월()
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文 (pinyin wén (wen2), Wade-Giles wen2)
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文 (traditional and simplified, Pinyin wén)
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文 (IPA *mʉn, by Zhengzhang (鄭張尚芳))
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文 (POJ bûn)
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文 (IPA *mɯn, by Zhengzhang (鄭張尚芳))
