Kanji

Jōyō kanji, Taught in grade 1

JLPT level: N4

190 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Stroke count: 4

Meaning: sentence, literature, style, art, decoration, figures, plan, literary radical (no. 67)

Kunyomi: ふみ あや

Onyomi: ブン モン

Composition:

Radical

Radical:

Reading: ぶん

Meaning: script, literature

Strokes: 4

Examples

Examples with audio

法(ぶんぽう)   grammar

章(ぶんしょう)   sentence

学(ぶんがく)   literature

化(ぶんか)   culture

明(ぶんめい)   civilization

庫本(ぶんこぼん)   paperback

房具(ぶんぼうぐ)   stationery

(ろんぶん)   thesis

通する(ぶんつうする)   correspond, exchange letters

部省(もんぶしょう)   Ministry of Education

句(もんく)   phrase, complaint

(こいぶみ)   love-letter

Onyomi Examples

ブン sentence, composition, text, writings, the literary arts (as opposed to the military arts), academia, literature, statement

ブンカ culture, civilization, civilisation, Bunka era (1804.2.11-1818.4.22)

コウブン official document, archives

イブン variant (in a manuscript or book), part of a text that differs from other versions

モン mon, one-thousandth of a kan (unit of currency 1336-1870), mon, traditional unit used for shoe and sock sizes (approx. 2.4 cm), letter, character, sentence, scripture, incantation

モン (family) crest, coat of arms, pattern, figure, playing card suit (in karuta)

ジンブン humanity, civilization, civilisation, culture

ジョウモン straw-rope pattern pressed into earthenware, Jōmon period (ca. 14000-1000 BCE)

Kunyomi Examples

ふみ letter, writings

ふみこう scented insert (to enclose with a letter), perfumed insert

雁の かりのふみ (a) letter

ひふみ Hifumi (script)

あや figure, design, twill weave, pattern of diagonal stripes, style (of writing), figure (of speech), design, plot, plan, minor market fluctuation, technical correction, cat's cradle, lease rod (in a loom)

無鳥 あやなしどり lesser cuckoo (Cuculus poliocephalus)

言葉は身の ことばはみのあや words betray one's character