文
language; culture; writing; formal; literary; gentle; (old) classifier for coins; Kangxi radical 67
4 strokes
Dict coverage rank #56 U+6587
How 文 is formed
Pictograph (象形字)
A tattooed chest, representing writing
components: 亠 乂
How to remember it
literature · Heisig RSH #1315
top hat + sheaf — as a component also called: Highlander
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Characters built with 文 as their sound component
These characters all use 文 (wén) as their phonetic component — compare how they read:
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 文 sound component | wén | culture, literature, writing |
| 纹 | wén | line, stripe; pattern, decoration; wrinkle |
| 刘 | liú | to kill, to destroy; surname |
| 蚊 | wén | mosquito, gnat |
| 坟 | fén | grave, mound, bulge; bulging |
| 汶 | wèn | a river in Shandong province |
| 忞 | mǐn | to psych up; to steel one's nerves |
| 紊 | wěn | tangled; confused, disordered |
| 玟 | mín | gem, jade-like stone |
| 炆 | wén | to simmer, to cook over a slow fire |
| 雯 | wén | cloud patterns; storm clouds |
Words containing 文
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 文山区 | Wén shān Qū | Wenshan District in Taipei 臺北市|台北市[Tai2 bei3 Shi4], Taiwan |
| 文水县 | Wén shuǐ Xiàn | Wenshui, a county in Lüliang City 呂梁市|吕梁市[Lu : 3 liang2 Shi4], Shanxi |
| 人文学 | rén wén xué | humanities |
| 文山市 | Wén shān Shì | Wenshan, a county-level city in Wenshan Zhuang and Miao Autonomous Prefecture 文山壯族苗族自治州|文山… |
| 人文 | rén wén | humanities; culture; humanistic |
| 文人 | wén rén | cultivated individual; scholar; literati |
| 天文学家 | tiān wén xué jiā | astronomer |
| 文县 | Wén Xiàn | Wen County or Wenxian, a county in Longnan City 隴南市|陇南市[Long3 nan2 Shi4], Gansu |
| 天文学 | tiān wén xué | astronomy |
| 文山 | Wén shān | see 文山壯族苗族自治州|文山壮族苗族自治州[Wen2 shan1 Zhuang4 zu2 Miao2 zu2 Zi4 zhi4 zhou1]; see 文山區|文山区[Wen2… |
| 文学家 | wén xué jiā | writer; man of letters; CL:個|个[ge4] |
| 文水 | Wén shuǐ | see 文水縣|文水县[Wen2 shui3 Xian4] |
| 水文 | shuǐ wén | hydrology |
| 文山会海 | wén shān huì hǎi | a mountain of paperwork and a sea of meetings (idiom) |
| 人文地理学 | rén wén dì lǐ xué | human geography |
| 文安县 | Wén ān Xiàn | Wen'an, a county in Langfang City 廊坊市[Lang2 fang2 Shi4], Hebei |
| 中文 | Zhōng wén | Chinese language |
| 文学 | wén xué | literature |
| 天文学大成 | Tiān wén xué Dà chéng | the Almagest by Ptolemy |
| 斯文 | sī wén | refined; educate; cultured; intellectual; polite; gentle |