文字
wén zì
Pinyin

Definition

文字
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wén zì
  1. character
  2. script
  3. writing
  4. written language
  5. writing style
  6. phraseology
  7. CL:個|个[gè]

Character Decomposition

Related Words (20)

中文
Zhōng wén
  1. 1 Chinese language
博文
bó wén
  1. 1 blog article
  2. 2 to write a blog article (netspeak)
原文
yuán wén
  1. 1 original text
名字
míng zi
  1. 1 name (of a person or thing)
  2. 2 classifier: 个 gè
字
zì
  1. 1 letter
  2. 2 symbol
  3. 3 character
  4. 4 word
  5. 5 classifier: 个 gè
  6. 6 courtesy or style name traditionally given to males aged 20 in dynastic China

Idioms (20)

一字一泪
yī zì yī lèi
  1. 1 each word is a teardrop (idiom)
一字不提
yī zì bù tí
  1. 1 to not mention a single word (about sth) (idiom)
一字千金
yī zì qiān jīn
  1. 1 one word worth a thousand in gold (idiom)
  2. 2 (in praise of a piece of writing or calligraphy) each character is perfect
  3. 3 each word is highly valued
一字褒贬
yī zì bāo biǎn
  1. 1 dispensing praise or blame with a single word (idiom)
  2. 2 concise and powerful style
一文不值
yī wén bù zhí
  1. 1 worthless (idiom)
  2. 2 no use whatsoever

Sample Sentences

据说金字塔里还发现了一种草纸，上面有古埃及文字。哎，我一直以为纸是我们东汉的蔡伦发明的，没想到古埃及早就发明了纸。比我们早了近3000年！
jùshuō jīnzìtǎ lǐ hái fāxiàn le yīzhǒng cǎozhǐ ，shàngmian yǒu gǔ Āijí wénzì 。ai ，wǒ yīzhí yǐwéi zhǐ shì wǒmen dōnghàn de Cài lún fāmíng de ，méixiǎngdào gǔ Āijí zǎo jiù fāmíng le zhǐ 。bǐ wǒmen zǎo le jìn sānqiān nián ！
They say a kind of grass paper was discovered in the pyramids. It has Egyptian writing on it. Ah, I always thought paper was discovered by Cai Lun during China's Eastern Han dynasty. I had no idea that ancient Egypt had discovered paper so early. They had it 3000 years before us!
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:干脆不用说话了，没有文字的聊天还算是聊天吗？
gāncuì bùyòng shuōhuà le ，méiyǒu wénzì de liáotiān hái suànshì liáotiān ma ？
Might as well not chat then! Is a chat without text still a chat?
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是啊，毕竟设计是为人服务的，不论是产品设计或室内装潢，甚至是都市规划。就像你们的杂志，也是很专业地用文字艺术为社会大众服务，所以销售量才能够在业界和一般大众的市场上都排名最高啊。
shì a ，bìjìng shèjì shì wèirén fúwù de ，bùlùn shì chǎnpǐn shèjì huò shìnèi zhuānghuáng ，shènzhì shì dūshì guīhuà 。jiù xiàng nǐmen de zázhì ，yě shì hěn zhuānyè de yòng wénzì yìshù wèi shèhuì dàzhòng fúwù ，suǒyǐ xiāoshòuliàng cái nénggòu zài yèjiè hé yībān dàzhòng de shìchǎng shàng dōu páimíng zuì gāo ā 。
Yes, design is providing people with a service, whether it is product design or interior design, or even urban planning. Just like your magazine, providing a service for the public with your professional use of the art of words, and that's how you manage to stay at the top of both the business and public sales rankings.
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编者按：这里的文字没有浮华，没有空谈，没有“标题党”。
biānzhě àn ：zhèlǐ de wénzì méiyǒu fúhuá ，méiyǒu kōngtán ，méiyǒu “biāotídǎng ”。
Editor's note: The text here is not overstated, there is no empty talk, there is no "misleading headline”.
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则天文字
zétiān wénzì
Zhe Tian characters
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我反对，文言文难学并不代表它是没有价值的。它是中国传统文化的精髓。古人用了那么久的文字，一定有它存在的价值。
wǒ fǎnduì ，wényánwén nánxué bìngbù dàibiǎo tā shì méiyǒu jiàzhí de 。tā shì Zhōngguó chuántǒng wénhuà de jīngsuǐ 。gǔrén yòng le nàme jiǔ de wénzì ，yīdìng yǒu tā cúnzài de jiàzhí 。
I disagree. Just because classical Chinese is difficult to learn, that doesn't mean it doesn't have any value. It's the essence of traditional Chinese culture. People used that language for so long, there's certainly value in it.
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秦始皇统一了文字和货币。
Qínshǐhuáng tǒngyī le wénzì hé huòbì 。
Qin Shihuang united the written language and currency.
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