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Character:
Modern (Beijing) reading: wén
Preclassic Old Chinese: mǝn
Classic Old Chinese: mǝn
Western Han Chinese: mǝn
Eastern Han Chinese: mwǝn
Early Postclassic Chinese: mwɨn
Middle Postclassic Chinese: mwɨn
Late Postclassic Chinese: mwɨn
Middle Chinese: mün
English meaning : be striped, patterned, refined, accomplished, cultured
Russian meaning[s]: 1) письмена, письменность; язык; 2) сочинения; литература; 3) культура, цивилизация; культурный; утонченный; 4) гражданский; цивильный; 5) документ, официальная бумага; текст; 6) узор, украшение; полосы, орнамент; разукрашенный; вычурный; татуировать; 7) один вэнь, один чох (около 1/30 - 1/40 части фэнь или цента); перен. грош; 8) 12-е число (в телеграммах); 9) Вэнь (фамилия); [wèn] приукрасить; замазать (напр. ошибки)
Comments: The character 文 is now reserved for the meaning 'text, literature; refined, cultured'; the original meaning 'stripes, ornament' is (since Tang) written 紋. For *m cf. Xiamen bun2, Chaozhou buŋ2. Viet. has another loan from the same source: vằn 'striped'.
Sino-Tibetan etymology: Sino-Tibetan etymology
Dialectal data: Dialectal data
Radical: 67
Four-angle index: 6395
Karlgren code: 0475 a-g
Vietnamese reading: văn
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