白文

Chinese

		white; empty; blank white; empty; blank; bright; clear; plain; pure; gratuitous	language; culture; writing language; culture; writing; formal; literary; gentle
simp. and trad. (白文)		白	文
anagram		文白

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): báiwén

  (Zhuyin): ㄅㄞˊ ㄨㄣˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): baak⁶ man⁴

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: báiwén
    • Zhuyin: ㄅㄞˊ ㄨㄣˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: báiwún
    • Wade–Giles: pai²-wên²
    • Yale: bái-wén
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: bairwen
    • Palladius: байвэнь (bajvɛnʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /paɪ̯³⁵ wən³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: baak⁶ man⁴
    • Yale: baahk màhn
    • Cantonese Pinyin: baak⁹ man⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: bag⁶ men⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /paːk̚² mɐn²¹/

Noun

(deprecated template usage) 白文

1. text of an annotated book
2. unannotated edition of a book
3. intagliated characters (on a seal)

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Japanese

Kanji in this term
白	文
はく Grade: 1	ぶん Grade: 1
on'yomi

Noun

白(はく)文(ぶん) • (hakubun) 

1. unannotated Classical Chinese text, as opposed to Classical Chinese text annotated with kunten reading aids to read it as Japanese, or the Japanese reading of a Classical Chinese text

   Example: 楚人有鬻盾與矛者, as opposed to 楚人有_下鬻_二盾與_一レ矛者_上 or 楚(そ)人(ひと)に盾(たて)と矛(ほこ)とを鬻(ひさ)ぐ者(もの)有(あ)り (sohito ni tate to hoko to o hisagu mono ari).