文壇

Chinese

		language; culture; writing language; culture; writing; formal; literary; gentle	altar
trad. (文壇)		文	壇
simp. (文坛)		文	坛

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): wéntán

  (Zhuyin): ㄨㄣˊ ㄊㄢˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): man⁴ taan⁴
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): bûn-tôaⁿ / bûn-tân

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: wéntán
    • Zhuyin: ㄨㄣˊ ㄊㄢˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: wúntán
    • Wade–Giles: wên²-tʻan²
    • Yale: wén-tán
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: wentarn
    • Palladius: вэньтань (vɛnʹtanʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /wən³⁵ tʰän³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: man⁴ taan⁴
    • Yale: màhn tàahn
    • Cantonese Pinyin: man⁴ taan⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: men⁴ tan⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /mɐn²¹ tʰaːn²¹/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: bûn-tôaⁿ
    • Tâi-lô: bûn-tuânn
    • Phofsit Daibuun: bundvoaa
    • Sinological IPA (Kaohsiung): /bun²³⁻³³ tuã²³/
    • Sinological IPA (Xiamen, Quanzhou): /bun²⁴⁻²² tuã²⁴/
    • Sinological IPA (Zhangzhou): /bun¹³⁻²² tuã¹³/
    • Sinological IPA (Taipei): /bun²⁴⁻¹¹ tuã²⁴/
  • (Hokkien: variant in Taiwan)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: bûn-tân
    • Tâi-lô: bûn-tân
    • Phofsit Daibuun: bundaan
    • Sinological IPA (Taipei): /bun²⁴⁻¹¹ tan²⁴/
    • Sinological IPA (Kaohsiung): /bun²³⁻³³ tan²³/

Noun

文壇

1. literary world; world of letters; literary circles

Japanese

Kanji in this term
文	壇
ぶん Grade: 1	だん Grade: S
on'yomi

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [bɯ̟̃ndã̠ɴ]
• (Tokyo) ぶんだん [bùńdáń] (Heiban – [0])

Noun

文(ぶん)壇(だん) • (bundan) 

1. the literary world, literary society

   Synonym: 文学界 (bungakukai)

References

• “文壇”, in 漢字ぺディア [Kanjipedia]‎^[1] (in Japanese), The Japan Kanji Aptitude Testing Foundation, 2015–2026