互文

Chinese

		mutual	language; culture; writing language; culture; writing; formal; literary; gentle
simp. and trad. (互文)		互	文

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): hùwén

  (Zhuyin): ㄏㄨˋ ㄨㄣˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): wu⁶ man⁴

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: hùwén
    • Zhuyin: ㄏㄨˋ ㄨㄣˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: hùwún
    • Wade–Giles: hu⁴-wên²
    • Yale: hù-wén
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: huhwen
    • Palladius: хувэнь (xuvɛnʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /xu⁵¹ wən³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: wu⁶ man⁴
    • Yale: wuh màhn
    • Cantonese Pinyin: wu⁶ man⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: wu⁶ men⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /wuː²² mɐn²¹/

Noun

互文

1. (rhetoric) mutually implied phrasing (a kind of rhetorical device employed in early Chinese writing and argument); paired phrases