| 开 | kāi | to open / to start / to turn on / to boil / to write out (a prescription, check, invoice etc) / to operate (a vehicle) / carat (gold) / abbr. for Kelvin, 開爾文|开尔文[Kai1 er3 wen2] / abbr. for 開本|开本[kai1 ben3], book format |
| 中文 | Zhōng wén | Chinese language |
| 论文 | lùn wén | paper / treatise / thesis / CL:篇[pian1] / to discuss a paper or thesis (old) |
| 天文 | tiān wén | astronomy |
| 散文 | sǎn wén | prose / essay |
| 本文 | běn wén | this text / article / the main body of a book |
| 英文 | Yīng wén | English (language) |
| 人文 | rén wén | humanities / human affairs / culture |
| 转 | zhuǎi | see 轉文|转文[zhuai3 wen2] |
| 全文 | quán wén | entire text / full text |
| 语文 | yǔ wén | literature and language / (PRC) Chinese (as a school subject) |
| 复古 | fù gǔ | to return to old ways (a Confucian aspiration) / to turn back the clock / neoclassical school during Tang and Song associated with classical writing 古文 / retro (fashion style based on nostalgia, esp. for 1960s) |
| 梵 | Fàn | abbr. for 梵教[Fan4 jiao4] Brahmanism / abbr. for Sanskrit 梵語|梵语[Fan4 yu3] or 梵文[Fan4 wen2] / abbr. for 梵蒂岡|梵蒂冈[Fan4 di4 gang1], the Vatican |
| 发文 | fā wén | to issue a document / document issued by an authority / outgoing messages / (Internet) to post an article online |
| 原文 | yuán wén | original text |
| 法文 | Fǎ wén | French language |
| 日文 | Rì wén | Japanese (language) |
| 译文 | yì wén | translated text |
| 作文 | zuò wén | to write an essay / composition (student essay) / CL:篇[pian1] |
| 上下文 | shàng xià wén | (textual) context |
| 外文 | wài wén | foreign language (written) |
| 正文 | zhèng wén | main text (as opposed to footnotes) / main body (of a book) |
| 课文 | kè wén | text / CL:篇[pian1] |
| 诗文 | shī wén | poetry and literature |
| 征文 | zhēng wén | to solicit articles, essays or pieces of literature (on a subject or in commemoration of an event) |