西文

Chinese

		west	language; culture; writing language; culture; writing; formal; literary; gentle
simp. and trad. (西文)		西	文

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): xīwén

  (Zhuyin): ㄒㄧ ㄨㄣˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): sai¹ man⁴, sai¹ man^4-2

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: xīwén
    • Zhuyin: ㄒㄧ ㄨㄣˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: siwún
    • Wade–Giles: hsi¹-wên²
    • Yale: syī-wén
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shiwen
    • Palladius: сивэнь (sivɛnʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɕi⁵⁵ wən³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: sai¹ man⁴, sai¹ man^4-2
    • Yale: sāi màhn, sāi mán
    • Cantonese Pinyin: sai¹ man⁴, sai¹ man^4-2
    • Guangdong Romanization: sei¹ men⁴, sei¹ men^4-2
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /sɐi̯⁵⁵ mɐn²¹/, /sɐi̯⁵⁵ mɐn²¹⁻³⁵/

Noun

西文

1. Western-language text; European-language text

   西文無襯線字體／西文无衬线字体  ―  xīwén wúchènxiàn zìtǐ  ―  Western sans-serif font

2. Short for 西班牙文 (xībānyáwén, “Spanish”).