文 wén
- Strokes
- 4
- Radical
- 文 — culture, literature, writing
- How it's built
- Pictograph — a drawing of the thing
文具
wénjù
stationery
Characters in this word
具 jù
- Strokes
- 8
- Radical
- 八 — eight
- How it's built
- Ideograph — the meaning is built from its parts
Example phrases
- 开学前，家长们忙着给孩子准备文具。 Kāixué qián, jiāzhǎngmen máng zhe gěi háizi zhǔnbèi wénjù. Before school starts, parents are busy preparing stationery for their children.
- 这家文具店里有各种颜色的笔和本子。 Zhè jiā wénjùdiàn lǐ yǒu gèzhǒng yánsè de bǐ hé běnzi. This stationery shop has pens and notebooks in every colour.
- 他的书桌上放满了文具，却总是找不到橡皮。 Tā de shūzhuō shang fàng mǎn le wénjù, què zǒngshì zhǎo bú dào xiàngpí. His desk is full of stationery, yet he can never find an eraser.
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
- 文章 wénzhāng article; essay
- 文字 wénzì written language
- 论文 lùnwén paper; thesis