文 wén
- Strokes
- 4
- Radical
- 文 — culture, literature, writing
- How it's built
- Pictograph — a drawing of the thing
文学
wénxué
literature
Characters in this word
学 xué
- Strokes
- 8
- Radical
- 子 — son, child
- How it's built
- Ideograph — the meaning is built from its parts
Example phrases
- 我喜欢文学。 Wǒ xǐhuan wénxué. I like literature.
- 她学文学。 Tā xué wénxué. She studies literature.
- 文学课很有趣。 Wénxué kè hěn yǒuqù. Literature class is very interesting.
Related words
- 课文 kèwén text (of a lesson)
- 中文 Zhōngwén Chinese (language)
- 英文 Yīngwén written English
- 作文 zuòwén composition
- 外文 wàiwén foreign language; foreign writing
- 文化 wénhuà culture
- 文件 wénjiàn document; file
- 文明 wénmíng civilized
- 文章 wénzhāng article; essay
- 文字 wénzì written language
- 论文 lùnwén paper; thesis
- 散文 sǎnwén prose; essay