英文

Chinese

		flower; hero; brave flower; hero; brave; outstanding; Britain (abbrev.); English	language; culture; writing language; culture; writing; formal; literary; gentle
trad. (英文)		英	文
simp. #(英文)		英	文

Etymology

Abbreviation of 英國／英国 (Yīngguó, “England”) + 文 (wén, “writing; language”)

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): yīngwén

  (Zhuyin): ㄧㄥ ㄨㄣˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): jing¹ man^4-2, jing¹ man⁴
• Hakka (Sixian, PFS): Yîn-vùn
• Southern Min

  (Hokkien, POJ): Eng-bûn

  (Teochew, Peng'im): êng¹ bhung⁵

• Wu (Wugniu)
  • (Northern): ¹in-ven

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: yīngwén
    • Zhuyin: ㄧㄥ ㄨㄣˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: yingwún
    • Wade–Giles: ying¹-wên²
    • Yale: yīng-wén
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: ingwen
    • Palladius: инвэнь (invɛnʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /iŋ⁵⁵ wən³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: jing¹ man^4-2, jing¹ man⁴
    • Yale: yīng mán, yīng màhn
    • Cantonese Pinyin: jing¹ man^4-2, jing¹ man⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: ying¹ men^4-2, ying¹ men⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /jɪŋ⁵⁵ mɐn²¹⁻³⁵/, /jɪŋ⁵⁵ mɐn²¹/

Note: jing1 man4 - attributive.

• Hakka
  • (Northern Sixian, incl. Miaoli)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: Yîn-vùn
    • Hakka Romanization System: in´ vunˇ
    • Hagfa Pinyim: yin¹ vun²
    • Sinological IPA: /in²⁴ vun¹¹/
  • (Southern Sixian, incl. Meinong)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: Yîn-vùn
    • Hakka Romanization System: (r)in´ vunˇ
    • Hagfa Pinyim: yin¹ vun²
    • Sinological IPA: /(j)in²⁴ vun¹¹/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Eng-bûn
    • Tâi-lô: Ing-bûn
    • Phofsit Daibuun: engbuun
    • IPA (Xiamen): /iɪŋ⁴⁴⁻²² bun²⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /iɪŋ³³ bun²⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /iɪŋ⁴⁴⁻²² bun¹³/
    • IPA (Taipei): /iɪŋ⁴⁴⁻³³ bun²⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /iɪŋ⁴⁴⁻³³ bun²³/
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: êng¹ bhung⁵
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: eng bûng
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /eŋ³³⁻²³ buŋ⁵⁵/
• Wu
  • (Shanghai):
    • Wugniu: ¹in-ven
    • MiniDict: in^平 ven
    • Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ¹in-ven
    • Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /in⁵⁵ vən²¹/

Noun

(deprecated template usage) 英文

1. English language (especially written)

   你會寫英文字嗎？ [MSC, trad.]
   你会写英文字吗？ [MSC, simp.]

   Nǐ huì xiě yīngwén zì ma? [Pinyin]

   Can you write English words?

Synonyms

• 英語／英语 (yīngyǔ)

Further reading

• “Entry #50344”, in 臺灣閩南語常用詞辭典 [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwan Minnan] (overall work in Mandarin and Hokkien), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2023.

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Japanese

Kanji in this term
英	文
えい Grade: 4	ぶん Grade: 1
on’yomi

Noun

英(えい)文(ぶん) • (eibun) 

1. a sentence in English
2. text in English
3. Short for 英文学.

Proper noun

英文(ひでふみ) or 英文(proper) • (hidefumi or proper) [[Category:Japanese
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1. a male given name