Kanji: 文

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JLPT Level:	JLPT N4 (upper beginner level)
Kanken Level:	Kanken Level 10 (learned at completion of 1st grade)
Grade:	Taught during the 1st grade in Japan
Radical:	文 Radical name: ぶんにょう
Meaning:	Sentence, literature, style, art, decoration, figures, plan, literary radical (no. 67)
Usage:	Appears very frequently in Japanese newspapers; only about 200 kanji are used more often.

JLPT Level	Word	Meaning
N5	作文(さくぶん)	composition, writing
N5	文章(ぶんしょう)	sentence, text
N4	文化(ぶんか)	culture
N4	文学(ぶんがく)	literature
N4	文法(ぶんぽう)	grammar
N3	注文(ちゅうもん)	order, request
N3	文(ぶん)	sentence
N3	文明(ぶんめい)	civilization, culture
N3	文字(もじ)	letter (of alphabet), character
N3	文字(もんじ)	letter (of alphabet), character
N3	文句(もんく)	phrase, complaint
N3	論文(ろんぶん)	thesis, essay, treatise, paper
N2	英文(えいぶん)	sentence in English
N2	人文科学(じんぶんかがく)	social sciences, humanities
N2	文芸(ぶんげい)	literature, art and literature, belles-lettres
N2	文献(ぶんけん)	literature, books (reference)
N2	文体(ぶんたい)	literary style
N2	文房具(ぶんぼうぐ)	stationery
N2	文脈(ぶんみゃく)	context
N1	原文(げんぶん)	the text, original
N1	文(ふみ)	letter, writings
N1	文化財(ぶんかざい)	cultural assets, cultural property
N1	文語(ぶんご)	written language, literary language
N1	文書(ぶんしょ)	document, writing, letter, note, records, archives
N1	本文(ほんぶん)	text (of document), body (of letter)
N1	和文(わぶん)	Japanese text, sentence in Japanese