| 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] |
| 英文 | Yīng wén | English (language) |
| 作文 | zuò wén | to write an essay / composition (student essay) / CL:篇[pian1] |
| 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 |
| 散文 | sǎn wén | prose / essay |
| 人文 | rén wén | humanities / human affairs / culture |
| 全文 | quán wén | entire text / full text |
| 文 | wén | language / culture / writing / formal / literary / gentle / (old) classifier for coins / Kangxi radical 67 |
| 语文 | yǔ wén | literature and language / (PRC) Chinese (as a school subject) |
| 转 | zhuǎi | see 轉文|转文[zhuai3 wen2] |
| 斯文 | sī wén | refined / educate / cultured / intellectual / polite / gentle |
| PO文 | pō wén | (coll.) to post a message |
| 原文 | yuán wén | original text |
| 上文 | shàng wén | preceding part of the text |
| 征文 | zhēng wén | to solicit articles, essays or pieces of literature (on a subject or in commemoration of an event) |
| 日文 | Rì wén | Japanese (language) |
| 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 |
| 正文 | zhèng wén | main text (as opposed to footnotes) / main body (of a book) |
| 短文 | duǎn wén | short piece; article; short essay |
| 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 |