例文

Chinese

		example; precedent; rule example; precedent; rule; case; instance	language; culture; writing language; culture; writing; formal; literary; gentle
trad. (例文)		例	文
simp. #(例文)		例	文

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): lìwén

  (Zhuyin): ㄌㄧˋ ㄨㄣˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): lai⁶ man⁴

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: lìwén
    • Zhuyin: ㄌㄧˋ ㄨㄣˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: lìwún
    • Wade–Giles: li⁴-wên²
    • Yale: lì-wén
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: lihwen
    • Palladius: ливэнь (livɛnʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /li⁵¹ wən³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: lai⁶ man⁴
    • Yale: laih màhn
    • Cantonese Pinyin: lai⁶ man⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: lei⁶ men⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /lɐi̯²² mɐn²¹/

Noun

例文

1. text
2. example sentence, sample sentence

Japanese

Kanji in this term
例	文
れい Grade: 4	ぶん Grade: 1
on’yomi

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ɾe̞ːbɯ̟̃ᵝɴ]

Noun

例(れい)文(ぶん) • (reibun) 

1. example sentence, sample sentence
   • 2015 September 21, Daniel Morales, “When translation gets tough, bow to the ‘Green Goddess’”, in The Japan Times‎^[1] (in English), retrieved 2023-04-11:

     [...] sometimes the entries can seem a little sparse, and there aren’t many reibun (例文, example sentences), which are always useful to judge context.

Korean

Hanja in this term
例	文

Noun

例文 • (yemun) (hangeul 예문)

1. Hanja form^? of 예문 (“example sentence, sample sentence”).