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文明

wén míng 2–2

civilized; civilization; culture

HSK level
HSK 3
HSK 2.0 level 5 · HSK 3.0 level 3
Characters
2
文 · 明
Syllables
2
wén míng
Frequency
Less common
corpus count 3,200

Part of speech: n,a,ad

Character by character

  • 文wén4 strokesHSK 1literature, culture, writing
  • 明míng8 strokesHSK 1bright, light, brilliant; clear

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 文明. Reading them together is how the character starts to stick — the same characters in a different context.

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