Chinese language

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 / abbr. for 開本｜开本, book format

text / CL: 篇

English (language)

to write an essay / composition (student essay) / CL: 篇

foreign language (written)

paper / treatise / thesis / CL: 篇 / to discuss a paper or thesis (old)

astronomy

prose / essay

humanities / human affairs / culture

entire text / full text

language / culture / writing / formal / literary / gentle / (old) classifier for coins / Kangxi radical 67

literature and language / (PRC) Chinese (as a school subject)

see 轉文｜转文

refined / educate / cultured / intellectual / polite / gentle

(coll.) to post a message

original text

preceding part of the text

braille / literature in braille

Chinese language / Chinese script

to solicit articles, essays or pieces of literature (on a subject or in commemoration of an event)

Japanese (language)

translated text

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)

to issue a document / document issued by an authority / outgoing messages / (Internet) to post an article online

main text (as opposed to footnotes) / main body (of a book)

short piece; article; short essay

old language / the Classics / Classical Chinese as a literary model, esp. in Tang and Song prose / Classical Chinese as a school subject

Russian language

official document

Kevin (name)

poetry and literature

clause / explanatory section in a document

(textual) context

abbr. for 梵教 Brahmanism / abbr. for Sanskrit 梵語｜梵语 or 梵文 / abbr. for 梵蒂岡｜梵蒂冈, the Vatican

(old) official communication (between government offices of equal rank) / report delivered by the head of government on affairs of state

Longwen district of Zhangzhou city 漳州市, Fujian

oracle script / oracle bone inscriptions (an early form of Chinese script)

(old, now used figuratively) official call to arms / official denunciation

to state in writing (laws, rules etc)

Owen (name) / Erwin (name) / Irvine, California

inscription

writing style (formal) / to send an official written communication

official written ruling in response to a submission / official approval in writing

scripture / scriptures / CL: 本

palindrome

Kevin (person name)

inscription in bronze / bell-cauldron inscription

Jianwen Emperor, reign name of second Ming Emperor Zhu Yunwen 朱允炆 (1377-1402), reigned 1398-1402

inscription on a tablet

Chinese written language / Chinese literature esp. as taught abroad

Xingwen county in Yibin 宜賓｜宜宾, Sichuan

a worthless piece of paper (idiom)

Xiuwen County in Guiyang 貴陽｜贵阳, Guizhou

Tibetan script / Tibetan written language / Tibetan language

Sanskrit

hydrology

essay

rune

to write an article

a single penny / a single cent

Kuiwen district of Weifang city 濰坊市｜潍坊市, Shandong

see 說文解字｜说文解字

interpreting words / to explain the meaning of words in classic texts / to decipher an old script

French language

Gang of Four: Jiang Qing 江青, Zhang Chunqiao 張春橋｜张春桥, Yao Wenyuan 姚文元, Wang Hongwen 王洪文, who served as scapegoats for the excesses of the cultural revolution

funeral oration / eulogy / elegiac address

German (language)

Steven (name) / Simon Stevin (1548-1620), Flemish engineer and mathematician, played a key role in introducing the decimal system to Europe

Longman (name)

quotation / citation

Calvin (name)

Six Methods of forming Chinese characters, according to Han dictionary Shuowen 說文｜说文 - namely, two primary methods: 象形 (pictogram), 指事 (ideogram), two compound methods: 會意｜会意 (combined ideogram), 形聲｜形声 (ideogram plus phonetic), and two transfer methods: 假借 (loan), 轉注｜转注 (transfer)

Manchurian written language

penniless (idiom)

characters cut in relief

a branch of the Xianbei 鮮卑｜鲜卑 nomadic people / two-character surname Yuwen

variant of 諮｜咨 / used in 咨文 / used in 咨嗟

written / statutory

verse

litany (text of a prayer)

remarkable or peculiar piece of writing

early form of Chinese characters inscribed in stone, a precursor of the small seal 小篆

dead letter / rule no longer in force / empty formality

bell-cauldron script / the 籀文 form of Chinese character used in metal inscriptions

petition (submitted to a superior)

without a penny to one's name / penniless / stony-broke

the great seal / used narrowly for 籀文 / used broadly for many pre-Qin scripts

to parade by interspersing one's speech or writing with literary allusions / Taiwan pr. [zhuan3 wen2]

(Internet) to repost (Tw)

Charles Darwin (1809-1882), British biologist, author of "On the Origin of Species" 物種起源｜物种起源 / Darwin, capital of the Northern Territory (Australia)

official document sent to an agency (or an official) of equal rank (in imperial times)

Simplified Chinese (abbr. for 簡體中文｜简体中文)

online literature, esp. web novels (abbr. for 網絡文學｜网络文学)

(social media) to post; a post

hangul, Korean phonetic alphabet

Roman Tam (1949-), Canto-pop singer

blog article / to write a blog article (netspeak)

variant character / loan word / variant written form (for the same word) / different edition

Jiang Wen (1963-), sixth generation Chinese movie director