文選
Chinese edit
language; culture; writing language; culture; writing; formal; literary; gentle |
to choose; to pick; to select to choose; to pick; to select; to elect | ||
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trad. (文選) | 文 | 選 | |
simp. (文选) | 文 | 选 |
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
文選
- anthology (collection of literary works)
Proper noun edit
文選
- Wen Xuan (an anthology of Chinese poetry and literature compiled between 520-530 CE by Xiao Tong, the crown prince of Liang)
Descendants edit
Japanese edit
Etymology 1 edit
Kanji in this term | |
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文 | 選 |
ぶん Grade: 1 |
せん Grade: 4 |
kan’on |
文 (“literature; text”) + 選 (“selection; picking”)
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
- (literature) an anthology
- (typography) type picking (historically, the picking of movable type for later typesetting)
Verb edit
文選する • (bunsen suru) suru (stem 文選し (bunsen shi), past 文選した (bunsen shita))
- (typography) to pick type
Etymology 2 edit
Kanji in this term | |
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文 | 選 |
もん Grade: 1 |
せん > ぜん Grade: 4 |
goon |
Literary Chinese 文選 (wénxuǎn)
Proper noun edit
See also edit
Korean edit
Hanja in this term | |
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文 | 選 |