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文 ぶん N3

  1. sentence
  2. composition; text; writings
  3. academia; literature; the literary arts (as opposed to the military arts)
  4. statement

文 ふみ

  1. letter; mail; note
  2. book; writings
  3. learning; literary arts; scholarship

文 もん

  1. mon; one-thousandth of a kan (unit of currency 1336-1870)
  2. mon; traditional unit used for shoe and sock sizes (approx. 2.4 cm)
  3. character; letter; sentence
  4. incantation; scripture

文章 ぶんしょう N5

  1. (writing) style; article; composition; essay; passage; prose; writing
  2. sentence

文化 ぶんか N4

  1. civilisation; civilization; culture
  2. Bunka era (1804.2.11-1818.4.22)

文学 ぶんがく N4

  1. literature

文法 ぶんぽう N4

  1. grammar

文句 もんく N3

  1. complaint; grumbling; objection
  2. expression; phrase; words

文字 もじ N3

  1. character; letter (of an alphabet)
  2. writing

文明 ぶんめい N3

  1. civilisation; civilization; culture
  2. Bunmei era (1469.4.28-1487.7.20)
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A free dictionary built on open data (JMdict, KANJIDIC2, Tatoeba). Try a word like 食べる, a kanji like 水, or find a kanji by its parts in the radical search. New to kana, kanji or JLPT? Read the glossary, or see fudami and its data sources.