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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:
Zhōng wén Chinese language
zuò wén to write an essay / composition (student essay) / CL:
Yīng wén English (language)
wài wén foreign language (written)
lùn wén paper / treatise / thesis / CL: / to discuss a paper or thesis (old)
tiān wén astronomy
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")
sǎn wén (broadly) prose (as opposed to verse) / (more narrowly) free-form literary prose, such as essays, sketches and reflections
wén language / culture / writing / formal / literary / gentle / (old) classifier for coins / Kangxi radical 67
quán wén entire text / full text
rén wén humanities / human affairs / culture
zhuǎi see 转文
shí wén early form of Chinese characters inscribed in stone, a precursor of the small seal 小篆
wén Syriac language (from c. 2nd century BC) / the Syriac script
Wén surname Wen
zhēng wén to solicit articles, essays or pieces of literature (on a subject or in commemoration of an event)
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)
wén to issue a document / document issued by an authority / outgoing messages / (Internet) to post an article online


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