文 wén
- Strokes
- 4
- Radical
- 文 — culture, literature, writing
- How it's built
- Pictograph — a drawing of the thing
文章
wénzhāng
article; essay
Characters in this word
章 zhāng
- Strokes
- 11
- Radical
- 立 — to stand
- How it's built
- Ideograph — the meaning is built from its parts
Example phrases
- 这篇文章很好。 Zhè piān wénzhāng hěn hǎo. This article is very good.
- 我写文章。 Wǒ xiě wénzhāng. I write articles.
- 文章不太长。 Wénzhāng bú tài cháng. The article is not very long.
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
- 文学 wénxué literature
- 文字 wénzì written language
- 论文 lùnwén paper; thesis
- 散文 sǎnwén prose; essay