文字
wén zì 2–4
character; script; writing; written language; writing style; phraseology
- Characters
- 2
- 文 · 字
- Syllables
- 2
- wén zì
- Frequency
- Less common
- corpus count 4,168
Part of speech: n
Character by character
Each character links to its stroke order page with a tracing and a writing exercise.
Words with the same characters
These words share at least one character with 文字. Reading them together is how the character starts to stick — the same characters in a different context.
- 名字míng ziHSK 1
name (of a person or thing)
- 字zìHSK 1
letter; symbol; character; word; courtesy or style name traditionally given to males aged 20 in dynastic China
- 文件wén jiànHSK 3
document; file
- 文wénHSK 7
language; culture; writing; formal; literary; gentle; (old) classifier for coins; Kangxi radical 67
- 文化wén huàHSK 3
culture; civilization; cultural
- 数字shù zìHSK 2
numeral; digit; number; figure; amount; digital (electronics etc)
- 文章wén zhāngHSK 3
article; essay; literary works; writings; hidden meaning
- 文明wén míngHSK 3
civilized; civilization; culture
- 论文lùn wénHSK 4
paper; treatise; thesis; to discuss a paper or thesis (old)
- 文学wén xuéHSK 3
literature
- 签字qiān zìHSK 5
to sign (one's name); signature
- 字母zì mǔHSK 4
letter (of the alphabet)
- 中文zhōng wénHSK 1
Chinese language
- 英文yīng wénHSK 2
English (language)
- 文物wén wùHSK 7
cultural relic; historical relic
- 金字塔jīn zì tǎHSK 7
pyramid (building or structure)
- 作文zuò wénHSK 2
to write an essay; composition (student essay)
- 字幕zì mùHSK 7
caption; subtitle
- 文献wén xiànHSK 7
document
- 字眼zì yǎnHSK 7
wording
- 文凭wén píngHSK 7
diploma
- 文艺wén yìHSK 5
literature and art
- 字典zì diǎnHSK 2
Chinese character dictionary (containing entries for single characters, contrasted with a 词典, which has entries for words of one or more characters); (coll.) dictionary
- 识字shí zìHSK 6
to learn to read