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Today's Kanji -- December 8, 2019
文
- on reading:
- ブン モン
- kun reading:
- ふみ あや
- meaning(s):
- sentence, literature, style, art, decoration, figures, plan
Stroke Order Diagram
(see individual frames below)
(see individual frames below)
Compounds
| ご注文 | ごちゅうもん | order; request |
| 悪文 | あくぶん | bad style; poor writing |
| 絢文 | けんぶん | colorful pattern |
| 暗号文 | あんごうぶん | cryptogram |
| 案文 | あんぶん | draft |
| 案文 | あんもん | draft |
| 異文 | いぶん | strange tale; another story; variant (reading); strange report or tale |
| 遺文 | いぶん | literary remains |
| 一文 | いちぶん | a sentence |
| 一文 | いちもん | something insignificant; one mon (10th sen) |
| 逸文 | いつぶん | unknown or lost writings |
| 引用文 | いんようぶん | a quotation |
| 陰文 | いんぶん | lettering of an engraving |
| 韻文 | いんぶん | verse; poetry |
| 右文 | ゆうぶん | respect for literary culture |
| 渦状文 | かじょうもん | spiral pattern |
| 英作文 | えいさくぶん | English composition |
| 英文 | えいぶん | sentence in English |
| 横文 | おうぶん | horizontal (Western) writing |
| 欧文 | おうぶん | European language; foreign text |
| 仮名交じり文 | かなまじりぶん | mixed writing (characters and kana) |
| 仮名文 | かなぶみ | publication in kana alone |
| 雅文 | がぶん | elegant (literary) style |
| 回文 | かいぶん | circular (document); palindrome |
| 廻文 | かいぶん | circular (document); palindrome |
| 学位論文 | がくいろんぶん | thesis |
| 学術論文 | がくじゅつろんぶん | treatise; monograph; study |
| 完結文 | かんけつぶん | sentence |
| 感想文 | かんそうぶん | written description of one's thoughts |
| 漢文 | かんぶん | Chinese (classical) literature |
| 雁の文 | かりのふみ | a letter |
| 願文 | がんもん | Shinto or Buddhist prayer (read) |
| 紀行文 | きこうぶん | traveller's journal |
| 記事文 | きじぶん | descriptive composition |
| 起請文 | きしょうもん | (historical) written vow to the gods |
| 戯文 | ぎぶん | humorous writing |
| 擬古文 | ぎこぶん | classical style |
| 疑問文 | ぎもんぶん | interrogative sentence |
| 狂文 | きょうぶん | (Edo-period) humorous literature |
| 金石文 | きんせきぶん | epigraph on a stone monument; ancient inscriptions on monuments |
| 空証文 | からしょうもん | empty promise |
| 空文 | くうぶん | dead letter |
| 経文 | きょうもん | sutras |
| 芸文 | げいぶん | art and literature |
| 欠文 | けつぶん | missing part (of manuscript) |
| 決議文 | けつぎぶん | written resolution |
| 懸賞論文 | けんしょうろんぶん | essay contest |
| 懸想文 | けそうぶみ | love letter |
| 研究論文 | けんきゅうろんぶん | research thesis; treatise |
| 原文 | げんぶん | the text; original |
| 諺文 | おんもん | (old name for) Hangul; the Korean script |
| 古文 | こぶん | ancient writing; classical literature |
| 古文 | こもん | ancient writing; classical literature |
| 交読文 | こうどくぶん | responsive readings |
| 候文 | そうろうぶん | epistolary style |
| 公文 | こうぶん | official document; archives |
| 公用文 | こうようぶん | official terminology |
| 口語文 | こうごぶん | colloquial language or sentence |
| 抗議文 | こうぎぶん | written protest |
| 構文 | こうぶん | syntax; sentence structure |
| 甲骨文 | こうこつぶん | ancient inscriptions of Chinese characters on oracle bones and carapaces |
| 肯定文 | こうていぶん | affirmative sentence |
| 行文 | こうぶん | writing (style) |
| 購入注文 | こうにゅうちゅうもん | purchase order |
| 告文 | こうもん | written report to the gods; imperial edict; written appeal to a superior |
| 告文 | こくぶん | written report to the gods; imperial edict; written appeal to a superior |
| 国文 | こくぶん | national literature |
| 再注文 | さいちゅうもん | repeat order |
| 祭文 | さいぶん | address to the gods; type of song which spread from mountain hermits to the laity during the Kamakura era |
| 祭文 | さいもん | address to the gods; type of song which spread from mountain hermits to the laity during the Kamakura era |
| 作文 | さくぶん | composition; writing |
| 雑文 | ざつぶん | literary miscellany |
| 三文 | さんもん | cheapness; farthing |
| 散文 | さんぶん | prose |
| 斯文 | しぶん | this academic subject or field of study; Confucian studies |
| 死文 | しぶん | dead letter; meaningless writing |
| 詩文 | しぶん | poetry and prose; literary works |
| 時文 | じぶん | modern literature |
| 写生文 | しゃせいぶん | word picture |
| 主文 | しゅぶん | the text; the main clause; the main part of a document |
| 呪文 | じゅもん | spell; charm; incantation |
| 修士論文 | しゅうしろんぶん | master's thesis (in anthropology) |
| 重文 | じゅうぶん | compound sentence; important national treasure |
| 書簡文 | しょかんぶん | epistolary style |
| 叙事文 | じょじぶん | narration; description |
| 叙文 | じょぶん | preface; introduction |
| 序文 | じょぶん | preface; foreword |
| 商業文 | しょうぎょうぶん | commercial correspondence |
| 商用文 | しょうようぶん | business correspondence |
| 消息文 | しょうそくぶん | personal letter |
| 証文 | しょうもん | bond; deed; contract |
| 上奏文 | じょうそうぶん | report to the throne |
| 上文 | じょうぶん | the foregoing |
| 冗文 | じょうぶん | redundancy |
| 条件文 | じょうけんぶん | conditional statement |
| 条文 | じょうぶん | text; provisions (act, treaty) |
| 色文 | いろぶみ | love letter |
| 人文 | じんぶん | humanity; civilization; culture |
| 人文 | じんもん | humanity; civilization; culture |
| 成り行き注文 | なりゆきちゅうもん | market order |
| 成文 | せいぶん | written expression; writing |
| 正文 | せいぶん | the official text |
| 誓文 | せいもん | written oath |
| 石文 | いしぶみ | stone monument bearing an inscription |
| 拙文 | せつぶん | poor writing |
| 説明文 | せつめいぶん | explanatory note |
| 前文 | ぜんぶん | preamble; the above statement |
| 全文 | ぜんぶん | whole passage; full text; whole sentence; full paragraph |
| 挿入文 | そうにゅうぶん | parenthetic sentence |
| 俗文 | ぞくぶん | colloquial style |
| 卒業論文 | そつぎょうろんぶん | graduation thesis |
| 駄文 | だぶん | poor piece of writing |
| 袋小路文 | ふくろこうじぶん | garden-path sentences |
| 達文 | たつぶん | skilled writing |
| 脱文 | だつぶん | missing passage; lacuna |
| 単文 | たんぶん | simple sentence |
| 短文 | たんぶん | short sentence; short piece |
| 地の文 | じのぶん | descriptive (narrative) part |
| 地文 | ちもん | physiography; physiographical features |
| 注文 | ちゅうもん | order; request |
| 註文 | ちゅうもん | order; request |
| 弔文 | ちょうぶん | funeral address |
| 長文 | ちょうぶん | long sentence or letter |
| 追加注文 | ついかちゅうもん | additional order |
| 天文 | てんもん | astronomy |
| 電文 | でんぶん | telegram |
| 投げ文 | なげぶみ | (love) letter tossed into a home |
| 同種同文 | どうしゅどうぶん | same race and same language |
| 同文 | どうぶん | same script; same language |
| 独文 | どくぶん | German literature; German sentence |
| 縄文 | じょうもん | Jomon period; straw-rope pattern |
| 難文 | なんぶん | difficult sentence |
| 二束三文 | にそくさんもん | dirt cheap; very cheap |
| 二足三文 | にそくさんもん | dirt cheap; very cheap |
| 能文 | のうぶん | skilled in writing |
| 俳文 | はいぶん | prose with a poetic haiku flavor |
| 売文 | ばいぶん | hack writer |
| 博士論文 | はかせろんぶん | Doctoral dissertation |
| 博士論文 | はくしろんぶん | Doctoral dissertation |
| 白文 | はくぶん | unpunctuated Chinese texts |
| 判決文 | はんけつぶん | judgment paper |
| 犯行声明文 | はんこうせいめいぶん | letter of responsibility (for a crime) |
| 否定文 | ひていぶん | negative sentence |
| 碑文 | ひぶん | inscription; epitaph; epigraph |
| 美しい文 | うつくしいあや | beautiful design |
| 美文 | びぶん | flowery prose |
| 不文 | ふぶん | 1. unwritten; 2. illiterate; uneducated |
| 付け文 | つけぶみ | love letter |
| 復習文 | ふくしゅうぶん | review sentences |
| 復文 | ふくぶん | reply letter; retranslation (into the original language) |
| 複文 | ふくぶん | complex sentence |
| 仏文 | ふつぶん | French; French writing; French literature |
| 文 | ふみ | letter; writings |
| 文 | ぶん | sentence |
| 文の無い文体 | あやのないぶんたい | plain style |
| 文を以て立つ | ぶんをもってたつ | to live by the pen |
| 文を組み立てる | ぶんをくみたてる | to construct a sentence |
| 文を練る | ぶんをねる | to polish one's style |
| 文案 | ぶんあん | draft |
| 文意 | ぶんい | meaning of a sentence |
| 文運 | ぶんうん | cultural progress; advance of the arts |
| 文苑 | ぶねん | anthology; literary world; collection of literary masterpieces |
| 文化 | ぶんか | culture; civilization |
| 文化の日 | ぶんかのひ | Culture Day Holiday (Nov 3) |
| 文化遺産 | ぶんかいさん | cultural heritage |
| 文化映画 | ぶんかえいが | cultural film |
| 文化勲章 | ぶんかくんしょう | Order of Cultural Merit (award) |
| 文化圏 | ぶんかけん | cultural sphere |
| 文化交流 | ぶんかこうりゅう | cultural exchange |
| 文化功労者 | ぶんかこうろうしゃ | person who has made outstanding cultural contributions |
| 文化国家 | ぶんかこっか | country with a high level of culture |
| 文化祭 | ぶんかさい | Culture Festival |
| 文化財 | ぶんかざい | cultural assets; cultural property |
| 文化史 | ぶんかし | cultural history |
| 文化事業部 | ぶんかじぎょうぶ | Cultural Affairs Department |
| 文化人 | ぶんかじん | person of culture; cultured person |
| 文化人類学 | ぶんかじんるいがく | cultural anthropology |
| 文化大革命 | ぶんかだいかくめい | (China's) Cultural Revolution (1966-76) |
| 文化地理学 | ぶんかちりがく | cultural geography |
| 文化庁 | ぶんかちょう | (Japan's) Agency for Cultural Affairs |
| 文化的 | ぶんかてき | cultural |
| 文科 | ぶんか | 1. literary course; 2. the arts |
| 文科系 | ぶんかけい | literary group |
| 文雅 | ぶんが | elegant or refined style |
| 文革 | ぶんかく | cultural revolution |
| 文学 | ぶんがく | literature |
| 文学の味 | ぶんがくのあじ | the pleasures of literature |
| 文学を論じる | ぶんがくをろんじる | to discuss literature |
| 文学界 | ぶんがくかい | the literary world; literary circles |
| 文学座 | ぶんがくざ | the Bungaku Company |
| 文学作品 | ぶんがくさくひん | literary work |
| 文学史 | ぶんがくし | literary history; history of literature |
| 文学士 | ぶんがくし | Bachelor of Arts |
| 文学者 | ぶんがくしゃ | literary person |
| 文学賞 | ぶんがくしょう | literary prize |
| 文学青年 | ぶんがくせいねん | young literary enthusiast |
| 文学的 | ぶんがくてき | literary |
| 文学的な匂い | ぶんがくてきなにおい | literary flavor |
| 文学博士 | ぶんがくはかせ | a Doctor of Literature |
| 文学部 | ぶんがくぶ | department (faculty) of literature |
| 文学論 | ぶんがくろん | literary criticism or theory |
| 文楽 | ぶんらく | Japanese puppet theatre; Bunraku |
| 文官 | ぶんかん | civil official |
| 文教 | ぶんきょう | education; culture |
| 文教の府 | ぶんきょうのふ | fountainhead of culture; Ministry of Education |
| 文教族 | ぶんきょうぞく | Diet members with a special interest in education |
| 文教地区 | ぶんきょうちく | school zone |
| 文句 | もんく | phrase; complaint |
| 文型 | ぶんけい | sentence pattern |
| 文系 | ぶんけい | humanities, social sciences, and fine arts; liberal arts |
| 文芸 | ぶんげい | literature; art and literature; belles-lettres |
| 文芸学 | ぶんげいがく | study or science of literature; a liberal arts department |
| 文芸作品 | ぶんげいさくひん | literary work |
| 文芸批評 | ぶんげいひひょう | literary criticism; book review |
| 文芸復興 | ぶんげいふっこう | Renaissance |
| 文芸欄 | ぶんげいらん | literary (and the arts) column |
| 文月 | ふづき | seventh month of lunar calendar |
| 文月 | ふみづき | seventh month of lunar calendar |
| 文献 | ぶんけん | literature; books (reference) |
| 文献学 | ぶんけんがく | philology; bibliography |
| 文庫 | ぶんこ | library; book collection |
| 文庫化 | ぶんこか | publish in paperback |
| 文庫本 | ぶんこぼん | paperback (pulp) |
| 文語 | ぶんご | written language; literary language |
| 文語体 | ぶんごたい | literary style |
| 文語調 | ぶんごちょう | flavor of literary style |
| 文語文 | ぶんごぶん | literary language |
| 文豪 | ぶんごう | literary master |
| 文才 | ぶんさい | literary talent |
| 文士 | ぶんし | man of letters; literary man |
| 文士の卵 | ぶんしのたまご | hatching writer |
| 文士連 | ぶんしれん | the literary set |
| 文事 | ぶんじ | literary matters |
| 文字 | もじ | letter (of alphabet); character |
| 文字 | もんじ | letter (of alphabet); character |
| 文字コード | もじコード | character code, e.g. JIS, Unicode, etc. |
| 文字化け | もじばけ | unintelligible sequence of characters |
| 文字合わせ錠 | もじあわせじょう | combination lock |
| 文字情報 | もじじょうほう | character information |
| 文字多重放送 | もじたじゅうほうそう | teletext |
| 文字通り | もじどおり | literally |
| 文字読取り装置 | もじよみとりそうち | character reader |
| 文字盤 | もじばん | a dial |
| 文字符号化法 | もじふごうかほう | character encoding scheme |
| 文字符号系 | もじふごうけい | character coding system |
| 文字列 | もじれつ | character string |
| 文治 | ぶんじ | civil administration |
| 文治 | ぶんち | civil administration |
| 文治主義 | ぶんじしゅぎ | governing by law and reason rather than by military force |
| 文治主義 | ぶんちしゅぎ | governing by law and reason rather than by military force |
| 文質彬彬 | ぶんしつひんぴん | refined; handsome and solid in character |
| 文弱 | ぶんじゃく | (enervating) attraction to books or learning |
| 文殊 | もんじゅ | Manjusri; Transcendent Wisdom (Buddhist deity) |
| 文殊様 | もんじゅさま | Boddhisattva |
| 文集 | ぶんしゅう | anthology |
| 文書 | ぶんしょ | document; writing; letter; note; records; archives |
| 文書 | もんじょ | document; writing; letter; note; records; archives |
| 文書偽造 | ぶんしょぎぞう | forgery of documents |
| 文章 | ぶんしょう | sentence; article |
| 文章語 | ぶんしょうご | literary language; the written language |
| 文章題 | ぶんしょうだい | (mathematical) problem expressed in words; story (verbal) problem |
| 文章論 | ぶんしょうろん | syntax |
| 文飾 | ぶんしょく | literary embellishments |
| 文身 | いれずみ | tattoo |
| 文身 | ぶんしん | tattoo |
| 文人 | ぶんじん | person of letters; literary person |
| 文人画 | ぶんじんが | style of Southern Chinese painting |
| 文人墨客 | ぶんじんぼっかく | writers and artists |
| 文勢 | ぶんせい | force of a literary style |
| 文政 | ぶんせい | educational policies or administration |
| 文責 | ぶんせき | responsibility for wording of an article |
| 文節 | ぶんせつ | paragraph; phrase |
| 文節数 | ぶんせつすう | number of phrases |
| 文選 | ぶんせん | typesetting |
| 文選工 | ぶんせんこう | typesetter; compositor |
| 文相 | ぶんしょう | Minister of Education, Science and Culture |
| 文藻 | ぶんそう | literary talent |
| 文体 | ぶんたい | literary style |
| 文体論 | ぶんたいろん | stylistics |
| 文題 | ぶんだい | subject; theme |
| 文旦 | ぶんたん | shaddock; pomelo |
| 文壇 | ぶんだん | literary world; literary circles |
| 文中 | ぶんちゅう | in the document |
| 文調 | ぶんちょう | writing style |
| 文鳥 | ぶんちょう | a Java sparrow |
| 文鎮 | ぶんちん | paperweight |
| 文通 | ぶんつう | correspondence; exchange of letters |
| 文典 | ぶんてん | grammar |
| 文読む月日 | ふみよむつきひ | days of reading |
| 文博 | ぶんはく | doctor of literature |
| 文箱 | ふばこ | box to hold letters |
| 文箱 | ふみばこ | box to hold letters |
| 文範 | ぶんぱん | model composition |
| 文筆 | ぶんぴつ | literary art; literary activity; writing |
| 文筆家 | ぶんぴつか | a writer |
| 文筆業 | ぶんぴつぎょう | literary profession; writing |
| 文武 | ぶんぶ | literary and military arts; the pen and the sword |
| 文武両道 | ぶんぶりょうどう | (accomplished in) both the literary and military arts |
| 文部 | もんぶ | Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology |
| 文部科学省 | もんぶかがくしょう | Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology |
| 文部省 | もんぶしょう | Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology |
| 文部大臣 | もんぶだいじん | Minister of Education |
| 文物 | ぶんぶつ | (the products of) culture or civilization |
| 文法 | ぶんぽう | grammar |
| 文法規則 | ぶんぽうきそく | grammar rules |
| 文法書 | ぶんぽうしょ | grammar (book) |
| 文法性 | ぶんぽうせい | grammaticality |
| 文法的 | ぶんぽうてき | grammatical |
| 文房具 | ぶんぼうぐ | stationery |
| 文房具屋 | ぶんぼうぐや | stationery shop; a stationer |
| 文末 | ぶんまつ | end of a sentence |
| 文脈 | ぶんみゃく | context |
| 文民 | ぶんみん | civilian |
| 文民統制 | ぶんみんとうせい | civilian control |
| 文無し | もんなし | penniless; broke |
| 文名 | ぶんめい | literary fame |
| 文明 | ぶんめい | civilization; culture |
| 文明が進むに連れて | ぶんめいがすすむにつれて | with the advance of civilization |
| 文明開化 | ぶんめいかいか | Japan's Westernization movement during the Meiji era |
| 文明館 | ぶんめいかん | the Bunmeikan Theater |
| 文明国 | ぶんめいこく | a civilized nation |
| 文明社会 | ぶんめいしゃかい | civilized society |
| 文面 | ぶんめん | content of a letter |
| 文盲 | もんもう | illiteracy |
| 文目 | あやめ | pattern; design; distinction |
| 文様 | もんよう | pattern; design |
| 文理 | ぶんり | literature and science; context; (line of) reasoning |
| 文例 | ぶんれい | sample sentence |
| 文藝春秋 | ぶんげいしゅんじゅう | name of publishing company |
| 平叙文 | へいじょぶん | declarative sentence |
| 法文 | ほうぶん | text of the law |
| 邦文 | ほうぶん | the Japanese language |
| 本文 | ほんぶん | text (of document); body (of letter) |
| 本文 | ほんもん | text (of document); body (of letter) |
| 漫文 | まんぶん | random jottings; rambling essays |
| 無一文 | むいちもん | penniless; broke |
| 名文 | めいぶん | famous literary composition |
| 命令文 | めいれいぶん | imperative sentence |
| 明文 | めいぶん | statement (e.g. law) |
| 銘文 | めいぶん | inscription |
| 矢文 | やぶみ | letter affixed to an arrow |
| 訳文 | やくぶん | a translation; translated sentence |
| 落し文 | おとしぶみ | letter dropped in the road; Japanese insect |
| 律文 | りつぶん | legal provisions; verse |
| 略文 | りゃくぶん | abridged sentence |
| 例文 | れいぶん | model sentence |
| 恋文 | こいぶみ | love-letter |
| 論文 | ろんぶん | thesis; essay; treatise; paper |
| 和文 | わぶん | Japanese text; sentence in Japanese |
| 檄文 | げきぶん | written appeal; manifesto; declaration |
| 衍文 | えんぶん | (inadvertent) redundancy in a text |
| 跋文 | ばつぶん | afterword |
