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Zhōng wén Chinese language
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 text / CL:
Yīng wén English (language)
zuò wén to write an essay / composition (student essay) / CL:
wài wén foreign language (written)
lùn wén paper / treatise / thesis / CL: / to discuss a paper or thesis (old)
tiān wén astronomy
sǎn wén prose / essay
rén wén humanities / human affairs / culture
quán wén entire text / full text
wén language / culture / writing / formal / literary / gentle / (old) classifier for coins / Kangxi radical 67
wén literature and language / (PRC) Chinese (as a school subject)
to return to old ways (a Confucian aspiration) / to turn back the clock / neoclassical school during Tang and Song associated with classical writing 古文 / retro (fashion style based on nostalgia, esp. for 1960s)
zhuǎi see 转文
wén refined / educate / cultured / intellectual / polite / gentle
shàng xià wén (textual) context
yuán wén original text
shàng wén preceding part of the text
PO wén (coll.) to post a message


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