文句

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Chinese

		language; culture; writing language; culture; writing; formal; literary; gentle	(a measure word, for sentences or lines of verse); sentence
simp. and trad. (文句)		文	句

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): wénjù

(Zhuyin): ㄨㄣˊ ㄐㄩˋ
Cantonese (Jyutping): man⁴ geoi³
Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): bûn-kù

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)
  - Hanyu Pinyin: wénjù
  - Zhuyin: ㄨㄣˊ ㄐㄩˋ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: wúnjyù
  - Wade–Giles: wên²-chü⁴
  - Yale: wén-jyù
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: wenjiuh
  - Palladius: вэньцзюй (vɛnʹczjuj)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /wən³⁵ t͡ɕy⁵¹/
  - Homophones:
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Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
  - Jyutping: man⁴ geoi³
  - Yale: màhn geui
  - Cantonese Pinyin: man⁴ goey³
  - Guangdong Romanization: men⁴ gêu³
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /mɐn²¹ kɵy̯³³/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: bûn-kù
  - Tâi-lô: bûn-kù
  - Phofsit Daibuun: bunkux
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /bun¹³⁻²² ku²¹/
  - IPA (Xiamen): /bun²⁴⁻²² ku²¹/
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /bun²⁴⁻²² ku⁴¹/

Noun

文句

text and wording in an article

Related terms

詞句／词句 (cíjù)
話語／话语 (huàyǔ)
語句／语句 (yǔjù)

Japanese

Kanji in this term
文	句
もん Grade: 1	く Grade: 5
on'yomi

Pronunciation

(Tokyo) もんく (Atamadaka – )^[1]^[2]^[3]
IPA^(key):

Noun

文(もん)句(く) • (monku)

complaint
文句(もんく)あるか？
Monku aru ka?
Any problems?

文句(もんく)を言(い)う
monku o iu
to complain
(literally, “to speak complaints”)
phrase, words

Derived terms

References

^ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 (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 (in Japanese), Tokyo: NHK Publishing, Inc., →ISBN
^ Kindaichi, Kyōsuke et al., editors (1997), 新明解国語辞典 (in Japanese), Fifth edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN

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