文壇

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Chinese

		language; culture; writing language; culture; writing; formal; literary; gentle	altar
trad. (文壇)		文	壇
simp. (文坛)		文	坛

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): wéntán

(Zhuyin): ㄨㄣˊ ㄊㄢˊ
Cantonese (Jyutping): man⁴ taan⁴
Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): bûn-tôaⁿ / bûn-tân

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: wéntán
  - Zhuyin: ㄨㄣˊ ㄊㄢˊ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: wúntán
  - Wade–Giles: wên²-tʻan²
  - Yale: wén-tán
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: wentarn
  - Palladius: вэньтань (vɛnʹtanʹ)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /wən³⁵ tʰän³⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
  - Jyutping: man⁴ taan⁴
  - Yale: màhn tàahn
  - Cantonese Pinyin: man⁴ taan⁴
  - Guangdong Romanization: men⁴ tan⁴
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /mɐn²¹ tʰaːn²¹/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: bûn-tôaⁿ
  - Tâi-lô: bûn-tuânn
  - Phofsit Daibuun: bundvoaa
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /bun²³⁻³³ tuã²³/
  - IPA (Xiamen, Quanzhou): /bun²⁴⁻²² tuã²⁴/
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /bun¹³⁻²² tuã¹³/
  - IPA (Taipei): /bun²⁴⁻¹¹ tuã²⁴/
- (Hokkien: variant in Taiwan)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: bûn-tân
  - Tâi-lô: bûn-tân
  - Phofsit Daibuun: bundaan
  - IPA (Taipei): /bun²⁴⁻¹¹ tan²⁴/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /bun²³⁻³³ tan²³/

Noun

文壇

literary world; world of letters; literary circles

Japanese

Kanji in this term
文	壇
ぶん Grade: 1	だん Grade: S
on'yomi

Pronunciation

(Tokyo) ぶんだん (Heiban – )^[1]^[2]
IPA^(key):

Noun

文(ぶん)壇(だん) • (bundan)

the literary world, literary society
Synonym: 文学界 (bungakukai)

References

^ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN
^ NHK Broadcasting Culture Research Institute, editor (1998), NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 [NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary] (in Japanese), Tokyo: NHK Publishing, Inc., →ISBN

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