文章

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Chinese

language; culture; writing
language; culture; writing; formal; literary; gentle
 
chapter; seal; section
simp. and trad.
(文章)

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1 1/1
Initial () (4) (23)
Final () (59) (105)
Tone (調) Level (Ø) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Closed Open
Division () III III
Fanqie
Baxter mjun tsyang
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/mɨun/ /t͡ɕɨɐŋ/
Pan
Wuyun
/miun/ /t͡ɕiɐŋ/
Shao
Rongfen
/miuən/ /t͡ɕiɑŋ/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/mun/ /cɨaŋ/
Li
Rong
/miuən/ /t͡ɕiaŋ/
Wang
Li
/mĭuən/ /t͡ɕĭaŋ/
Bernhard
Karlgren
/mi̯uən/ /t͡ɕi̯aŋ/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
wén zhāng
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
man4 zoeng1
BaxterSagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
wén zhāng
Middle
Chinese
‹ mjun › ‹ tsyang ›
Old
Chinese
/*mə/ /*taŋ/
English ornate brilliant; distinctive mark; to display

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. * as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character
Reading # 1/1 1/1
No. 13015 16817
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
1 0
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*mɯn/ /*kjaŋ/

Noun

文章

  1. essay; composition; article (in a newspaper, magazine, on the Internet, etc.) (Classifier: )
    熱門文章热门文章  ―  rèmén wénzhāng  ―  popular article
    發表文章发表文章  ―  fābiǎo wénzhāng  ―  to publish an article
    文章指點一下 [MSC, trad.]
    文章指点一下 [MSC, simp.]
    Wǒ xiě le yī piān wénzhāng, xiǎng qǐng nín gěi wǒ zhǐdiǎn yīxià.
    I wrote an article and would like to ask you to give me some advice.
    文章下來 [MSC, trad.]
    文章下来 [MSC, simp.]
    Zhè piān wénzhāng xiěde duō bàng a, bèi xiàlái.
    How excellently written is this article! Memorize it.
    文章喜歡文采 [MSC, trad.]
    文章喜欢文采 [MSC, simp.]
    Wǒ kàn guò nǐ de wénzhāng, hěn xǐhuān nǐ de wéncǎi.
    I've read your article and appreciate your literary talent.
  2. literary work; writing; text
  3. hidden meaning; implied meaning
  4. (Internet) message; post
  5. (archaic, literary) pattern

Synonyms

  • (essay):
  • (literary work):
  • (message; post): 帖子 (tiězi)

Derived terms

Descendants

Sino-Xenic (文章):

Japanese

Kanji in this term
ぶん
Grade: 1
しょう
Grade: 3
on'yomi

Pronunciation

Noun

(ぶん)(しょう) (bunshōぶんしやう (bunsyau)?

  1. (grammar) a sentence
  2. writing
  3. an essay or composition
  4. a writing style

Synonyms

Derived terms

Proper noun

Kanji in this term
ふみ
Grade: 1
あき
Grade: 3

(ふみ)(あき) (Fumiaki

  1. a male given name

References

  1. ^ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  2. ^ 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

Korean

Hanja in this term

Noun

文章 (munjang) (hangeul 문장)

  1. hanja form? of 문장 ((grammar) sentence)

Vietnamese

chữ Hán Nôm in this term

Noun

文章

  1. chữ Hán form of văn chương (literature).