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文章

wén zhāng 2–1

article; essay; literary works; writings; hidden meaning

HSK level
HSK 3
HSK 2.0 level 4 · HSK 3.0 level 3
Characters
2
文 · 章
Syllables
2
wén zhāng
Frequency
Common
corpus count 1,958

Part of speech: n

Character by character

  • 文wén4 strokesHSK 1literature, culture, writing
  • 章zhāng11 strokesHSK 3composition; chapter, section

Each character links to its stroke order page with a tracing and a writing exercise.

Example sentences

  • 你看文章了没?

    Nǐ kàn wén zhāng le méi

    You read the paper?

  • 他的话里有文章。

    Tā de huà lǐ yǒu wén zhāng

    There's another meaning behind his words.

Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR), contributed by their community.

Words with the same characters

These words share at least one character with 文章. Reading them together is how the character starts to stick — the same characters in a different context.

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