Etymology

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Character: 文

English Senses For (英文): wen2
a composition / an article / language / literature / culture / education / elegant / cultured / polished / suave / civil / polite / urbane / mild / civilian or civil ( as opposed to military ) / a former monetary unit / as in 一文不名 ( to own nothing ) / a Chinese family name

English Senses For (英文): wen3
to cover up / to conceal / to gloss over

Simplified (簡體字):
Unicode := 6587
GB2312-80 := CEC4

文

New! Simplification explanation under construction.

Traditional (繁體字):
Unicode := 6587
Big5 := A4E5

文
文 wen2 wen3 (productive phonetic)

History of Chinese Writing

中國文字的歷史

Spoken Chinese and Other Languages

Unicode Tests

Chinese Equivalent Websites

Chinese Encoding and Conversion

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ShuoWen: (說文解字):
錯畫也象交文凡文之屬皆從文

New! etymology explanation under construction.

Primitive pictograph 文. Believed to be a man in clothing, orginally with a heart. Meaning culture.

Seal (說文解字裏的篆體字)

S06494

LST Seal (六書通裏的篆體字) Characters

L31454	L31455	L31456	L31457	L31458	L31459	L31460

L05419	L05420	L05421	L05422	L05423	L05424	L05425

L05426	L05427	L05428	L05429	L05430	L05431	L05432

L05433	L05434	L05435	L05436	L05437	L05438	L05439

L05440	L05441	L05442	L05443	L05444	L05445	L05418

Bronze (金文编裏的字) Characters

B13857	B13858	B13859	B13860	B13861	B13862	B13863

B13864	B13865	B13866	B13867	B13868	B13869	B13870

B13871	B13872	B13873	B13874	B13875	B13876	B13877

B13878	B13879	B13880	B13881	B13882	B13883	B13884

B13885	B13886	B13887	B13888	B13889	B13890	B13891

B13892	B13893	B13894	B13895	B13896	B13897	B13898

B13899	B13900	B13901	B13902	B13903	B13904	B13905

B13906	B13907	B13908	B13909	B13910	B13911	B13912

B13913	B13914	B13915	B13916	B13917	B13918	B13919

B13920	B13921	B13922	B13923	B13924	B13925	B13926

B13927	B13928	B13929	B13930	B13931	B13932	B13933

B13934	B13935	B13936	B13937	B13938	B13939	B13940

B13941	B13942	B13943	B13944	B13945	B13946	B13947

Oracle (甲骨文编裏的字) Characters

J21019	J21020	J21021	J21022	J21023	J21024	J21025

J21026	J21027	J21028	J21029	J21030	J21031	J21032

J21033	J21034	J21035	J21036	J21037	J21038	J21039

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