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文 — language; culture; writing

language; culture; writing; formal; literary; gentle

Pinyin
wén · Wén
Strokes
4
HSK level
HSK 1
Handwriting
required

This character has more than one reading — wén, Wén — and the pronunciation depends on the word it appears in. The list below gives the syllabus reading for each word.

How to write 文: 4 strokes

Each cell adds one stroke to the previous ones, with the new stroke in red. Stroke order is not decoration: it sets the proportions of the character and makes handwriting legible to a reader. This character is on the HSK handwriting list, so the exam expects you to write it, not only recognise it.

文 — 4 strokes, in writing order from left to right.

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Words with 文 in the HSK syllabus: 25

Every word in the official 2026 syllabus that contains this character, with the level it is introduced at. Learning a character pays off through these: each one combines with the characters you already know.

  1. 中文ZhōngwénChinese languageHSK 1
  2. 课文kèwéntextHSK 3
  3. 文化wénhuàculture; civilization; culturalHSK 3
  4. 文件wénjiàndocument; fileHSK 4
  5. 文章wénzhāngarticle; essay; literary works; writingsHSK 4
  6. 文字wénzìcharacter; script; writing; written languageHSK 4
  7. 作文zuòwénto write an essay; compositionHSK 4
  8. 论文lùnwénpaper; treatise; thesisHSK 5
  9. 文学wénxuéliteratureHSK 5
  10. 语文yǔwénliterature and language; ChineseHSK 5
  11. 散文sǎnwénproseHSK 6
  12. 天文tiānwénastronomyHSK 6
  13. 文档wéndàngfile; document; documentationHSK 6
  14. 文具wénjùstationery; item of stationeryHSK 6
  15. 文科wénkēliberal arts; humanitiesHSK 6
  16. 文明wénmíngcivilized; civilization; cultureHSK 6
  17. 文物wénwùcultural relic; historical relicHSK 6
  18. 文献wénxiànreference materialHSK 6
  19. 文艺wényìliterature and artHSK 6
  20. 人文rénwénhumanities; culture; humanisticHSK 7–9
  21. 文wénlanguage; culture; writing; formal; literary; gentleHSK 7–9
  22. 文盲wénmángilliterateHSK 7–9
  23. 文凭wénpíngdiplomaHSK 7–9
  24. 文人wénréncultivated individual; scholar; literatiHSK 7–9
  25. 文雅wényǎelegant; refinedHSK 7–9

Glosses come from CC-CEDICT, used under CC BY-SA 4.0, and are the dictionary’s first sense rather than a translation chosen for context.