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Mythic Mandarin

文 (Wén): meaning and stroke order

文 (Wén) means surname Wen, language, culture, writing, formal, literary, gentle.

文

Simplified
文
Traditional
文 (same form)
Pinyin
Wén

Stroke order of 文

文

  • Wén surname Wen
  • wén language; culture
  • 4 strokes

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 文

  1. Wén
    • surname Wen
  2. wén
    • language
    • culture
    • writing
    • formal
    • literary
    • gentle
    • (old) classifier for coins
    • Kangxi radical 67

Radical and structure

文
Radical 文 (Kangxi radical 67) · 4 strokes · 亠 on top, 乂 below

Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan database. Structure: the shapes a character is written with (BabelStone IDS), not necessarily parts that carry meaning or sound.

Words with 文

Dictionary data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Stroke data: Hanzi Writer data, derived from Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License). Animation: Hanzi Writer (MIT licence). Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan (Unicode License v3).