| 中文 | Zhōng wén | Chinese language |
| 开 | kāi | to open (transitive or intransitive) / (of ships, vehicles, troops etc) to start / to turn on; to put in operation; to operate; to run / to boil / to write out (a prescription, check, invoice etc) / (directional complement) away; off / carat (gold) / abbr. for Kelvin, 開爾文|开尔文[Kai1er3wen2] / abbr. for 開本|开本[kai1ben3], book format |
| 课文 | kè wén | text / CL:篇[pian1] |
| 作文 | zuò wén | to write an essay / composition (student essay) / CL:篇[pian1] |
| 英文 | Yīng wén | English (language) |
| 外文 | wài wén | foreign language (written) |
| 论文 | lùn wén | paper / treatise / thesis / CL:篇[pian1] / to discuss a paper or thesis (old) |
| 天文 | tiān wén | astronomy |
| 上下 | shàng xià | the top and bottom of sth / the full vertical extent of sth; from top to bottom / to go up and down / before and after (as in 上下文[shang4xia4wen2] "context") / (used after a quantity) approximately; ... or so / (in a social hierarchy) the high and the low; seniors and juniors (as in 上下和睦[shang4xia4-he2mu4] "harmony between superiors and subordinates") / all members of a group (as in 舉國上下|举国上下[ju3guo2-shang4xia4] "the entire nation") / relative superiority (as in 不相上下[bu4xiang1-shang4xia4] "evenly matched") |
| 散文 | sǎn wén | (broadly) prose (as opposed to verse) / (more narrowly) free-form literary prose, such as essays, sketches and reflections |
| 文 | wén | language / culture / writing / formal / literary / gentle / (old) classifier for coins / Kangxi radical 67 |
| 全文 | quán wén | entire text / full text |
| 人文 | rén wén | humanities / human affairs / culture |
| 转 | zhuǎi | see 轉文|转文[zhuai3 wen2] |
| 叙利亚文 | Xù lì yà wén | Syriac language (from c. 2nd century BC) / the Syriac script |
| 文 | Wén | surname Wen |
| 征文 | zhēng wén | to solicit articles, essays or pieces of literature (on a subject or in commemoration of an event) |
| 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) |
| 发文 | fā wén | to issue a document / document issued by an authority / outgoing messages / (Internet) to post an article online |
| 短文 | duǎn wén | short piece; article; short essay |
| 语文 | yǔ wén | literature and language / (PRC) Chinese (as a school subject) |
| 古文 | gǔ wén | old language / the Classics / Classical Chinese as a literary model, esp. in Tang and Song prose / Classical Chinese as a school subject |
| 俄文 | É wén | Russian language |
| 主祷文 | zhǔ dǎo wén | Lord's Prayer |
| 龙文 | Lóng wén | Longwen district of Zhangzhou city 漳州市[Zhang1 zhou1 shi4], Fujian |