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Collins Chinese-English Dictionary

[wén]
  1. 1. noun [字] writing
    illiterate
  2. 2. noun [Literary] written language
    the Chinese language
  3. 3. noun [文章] essay
  4. 4. noun [指社会产物] culture
    civilization
  5. 5. noun [指自然现象]
    astronomy
  6. 6. noun [文科] [pl] humanities
    他是学的。
    He studied the humanities.
  7. 7. noun [非军事] civilian
  8. 8. adjective gentle
  9. 9. verb tattoo

Comprehensive Chinese-English Dictionary

[wén]
  1. 1. noun character; script; writing
    甲骨
    inscriptions on bones or tortoise shells of the Shang Dynasty (c. 16th-11th century B.C.)
  2. 2. noun language
    English (language)
  3. 3. noun literary composition; writing
    如其人
    the writing mirrors the writer; the style is the man
  4. 4. noun literary language
    这句话太了,不好懂。
    This sentence is too bookish to be readily intelligible.
  5. 5. noun culture
    cultural relic; historical relic
  6. 6. noun formal ritual
    rules and regulations that have become a dead letter; dead letter
  7. 7. noun certain natural phenomena
    astronomy
    hydrology
  8. 8. adjective civilian; civil
    civilian post
  9. 9. adjective gentle; refined
    elegant; refined; cultured; polished
  10. 10. verb cover up; paint over
  11. 11. verb tattoo
    tattoo
  12. 12. noun Vin
  13. 13. measure word (used for copper cash)
    a cash
    不值
    not worth a farthing
  14. 14. noun Veng (in Denmark, 9°54'E 56°07'N)

Contemporary Standard Chinese Dictionary

[wén]
  1. 1. 在身上或脸上刺画花纹或字
    了双颊。
    身。
    臂。
  2. 2. 名 [文] 花纹;纹理
    车(古代刻或画着花纹的车子)。
  3. 3. 指古代的礼乐仪制
    缛节。
  4. 4. 非军事的事物
    人。
    官。
    职人员。詻
  5. 5. 温和;不猛烈
    雅。
    弱。
    火。
  6. 6. 指自然界或人类社会的某些现象
  7. 7.
    甲骨
    盲。
    断字。英。詻
  8. 8.
    不对题。
    。詻
  9. 9. 指人社会科学
    我是学的,他是学工的。
    理并重。
    科。詻
  10. 10. 指公
    。詻
  11. 11.
    白夹杂。
    半白。詻
  12. 12. 用于旧时的铜钱(铜钱的一面铸有字)
    钱。
    不取。
    不名。
  13. 13. 遮掩
    过饰非。
  14. 14. E统读wén,不读wèn。

Examples

一看下他才知道是怎么回事。
As soon as he read what followed, he understood what had happened.
内容空泛,语言晦涩,故而不予采用
细心的读者方能体味中的妙处。

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