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Zhōng wén Chinese language
shàng xià the top and bottom of sth / the full vertical extent of sth; from top to bottom / to go up and down / before and after (as in 上下文 "context") / (used after a quantity) approximately; ... or so / (in a social hierarchy) the high and the low; seniors and juniors (as in 上下和睦 "harmony between superiors and subordinates") / all members of a group (as in 举国上下 "the entire nation") / relative superiority (as in 不相上下 "evenly matched")
Yīng wén English (language)
wén text / CL:
zuò wén to write an essay / composition (student essay) / CL:
tiān wén astronomy
wài wén foreign language (written)
sǎn wén (broadly) prose (as opposed to verse) / (more narrowly) free-form literary prose, such as essays, sketches and reflections
kāi to open (transitive or intransitive) / (of ships, vehicles, troops etc) to start / to turn on; to put in operation; to operate; to run / to boil / to write out (a prescription, check, invoice etc) / (directional complement) away; off / carat (gold) / abbr. for Kelvin, 开尔文 / abbr. for 开本, book format
wén language / culture / writing / formal / literary / gentle / (old) classifier for coins / Kangxi radical 67
zhǐ kōng wén a worthless piece of paper (idiom)
lùn wén paper / treatise / thesis / CL: / to discuss a paper or thesis (old)
shàng xià wén (textual) context
tuī wén tweet (on Twitter) / (HK, Tw) to "bump" a forum thread to raise its profile / to reply to original poster (or recommend a post) on PTT bulletin board
rén wén humanities / human affairs / culture
wén old language / the Classics / Classical Chinese as a literary model, esp. in Tang and Song prose / Classical Chinese as a school subject
qǐng to formally request (by means of an official communication 咨文)
wǎng wén online literature, esp. web novels (abbr. for 网络文学)
lái wén Malay language
quán wén entire text / full text


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