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Meanings
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- 1.surname Wen
- 1.language
- 2.culture
- 3.writing
- 4.formal
- 5.literary
- 6.gentle
- 7.(old) classifier for coins
- 8.Kangxi radical 67
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Wiktionary
- 1.Original form of 紋／纹 (wén, “mark, pattern, design, tattoo, decoration”).
- 2.Original form of 紋／纹 (wén, “to tattoo”).
- 3.writing; literary composition; literature (Classifier: 篇 c)
- 4.official document
- 5.literary language; Literary Chinese
- 6.script; written form
- 7.language
- 8.culture
- 9.liberal arts; humanities
- 10.natural or social phenomenon
- 11.ritual; etiquette
- 12.of a government position, non-military: civil, civilian
- 13.gentle; refined
- 14.47th tetragram of the Taixuanjing; "pattern, repetition" (𝌴)
- 15.Classifier for coins.
- 16.mill (a tenth of a cent)
- 17.(telegraphy) the twelfth day of a month
- 18.a surname
- 19.to cover
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Etymology
Ideogram (指事): a man with a painted or tattooed chest – original form of 紋. The tattoo was usually a cross, a V shape or a stylized heart. In current form, tattoo has vanished, so simply an outline of a man (head, outstretched arms, legs, chest) similar to 立. Compare 大, which has no chest. Unrelated to the Kangxi radicals 齐 and 攵. Possibly a derivation, with -n nominal suffix, of 煤 (*mɯː) "soot (obs.), ink (obs.), coal" (Schuessler, 2007). Semantic shift: "pattern, tattoo (made of soot)", "written glyph (made of ink)" > "literature" > "refined, cultured" (Schuessler, 2007).
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Components
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Example sentences
参见上文。
See above.
他的文筆很好。
He is a good writer.
他主修英國文學。
He majors in English literature.
我正在尋找可以幫我修改這篇論文的母語人士。
I'm looking for a native speaker who could help me correct this essay.
我建立了部落格。我會儘量努力，不想成為那種只在初期短暫活躍發文，然後就放棄的人。
I started a new blog. I'll do my best not to be one of those people who blogs a lot right at the start and then quits blogging.
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Antonyms
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