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漢文 かんぶん

  1. Chinese classical writing; Chinese classics
  2. writing composed entirely of kanji

漢文典 かんぶんてん

  1. dictionary of kanbun grammar and usage

漢文学 かんぶんがく

  1. Chinese classical literature; Chinese classics

漢文法 かんぶんぽう

  1. kanbun grammar

漢文訓読 かんぶんくんどく

  1. reading a classical Chinese text in Japanese

漢文訓読文 かんぶんくんどくぶん

  1. kanbun converted into literary Japanese

純漢文 じゅんかんぶん

  1. regular kanbun (following the rules of classical Chinese grammar)

変体漢文 へんたいかんぶん

  1. Japanized version of classical Chinese (used from Heian period onward)

棒読み ぼうよみ

  1. reading in a monotone; stiff delivery; wooden delivery
  2. reading a Chinese classical text without translating it into Japanese
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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.