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text / CL:
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Chinese language
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to write an essay / composition (student essay) / CL:
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English (language)
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document / file / CL:
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character / script / writing / written language / writing style / phraseology / CL: 個|个
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culture / civilization / cultural / CL: 個|个, 種|种
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foreign language (written)
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article / essay / literary works / writings / hidden meaning / CL: , , 頁|页
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literature / CL: 種|种
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civilized / civilization / culture / CL: 個|个
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paper / treatise / thesis / CL: / to discuss a paper or thesis (old)
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astronomy
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literature and art
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(broadly) prose (as opposed to verse) / (more narrowly) free-form literary prose, such as essays, sketches and reflections
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cultural recreation / entertainment
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charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
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language / culture / writing / formal / literary / gentle / (old) classifier for coins / Kangxi radical 67
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reference material (used in scholarly study)
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entire text / full text
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illiterate
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diploma
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stationery / item of stationery (pen, pencil, eraser, pencil sharpener etc)
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elegant / refined
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liberal arts / humanities
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cultural relic / historical relic / CL: , 個|个
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cultivated individual; scholar; literati
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humanities / human affairs / culture
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Purple Mountain Observatory
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines (Tw)
(abbr.) humanities and social sciences
Ko Wen-je (1959-), Taiwanese independent politician, Mayor of Taipei City from 2014
subculture
word processing
collection of documents / library / book series / sequence of data, esp. genome
early form of Chinese characters inscribed in stone, a precursor of the small seal 小篆
Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519), Italian Renaissance painter (Tw)
Syriac language (from c. 2nd century BC) / the Syriac script
folder / file (paper)
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
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surname Wen
literary work / art work
astronomical telescope
Classical Chinese
(computer) file; document; documentation
genre of writing / literary form / style / literary recreation and sporting activities
Wen'an county in Langfang 廊坊, Hebei
oracle script / oracle bone character (an early form of Chinese script)
document / official correspondence / secretary / secretariat
to solicit articles, essays or pieces of literature (on a subject or in commemoration of an event)
to issue a document / document issued by an authority / outgoing messages / (Internet) to post an article online
short piece; article; short essay
literature and language / (PRC) Chinese (as a school subject)
old language / the Classics / Classical Chinese as a literary model, esp. in Tang and Song prose / Classical Chinese as a school subject
Bachelor of Arts / B.A. / BA / A.B. / Artium Baccalaureus
Russian language
(newspapers etc) copy / copywriter / (office etc) paperwork / (old) secretary; clerk
arts and sciences
Wenbu or Ombu village in Nyima county 尼瑪縣|尼玛县, Nagchu prefecture, central Tibet / Tang dynasty equivalent of 吏部, personnel office
manuscript / article (in newspaper) / draft
Lord's Prayer
Mao Dun Literature Prize, PRC prize for novel writing, awarded since 1982
Thousand Character Classic, 6th century poem used as a traditional reading primer
setose asparagus
passport
official document
a text (article, script, contract etc) / version of a text (copy, translation, abridged version etc) / (computing) text
Longman (name)
Wenshui county in Lüliang 呂梁|吕梁, Shanxi 山西
Interfax News Agency
main text (as opposed to footnotes) / main body (of a book)
chauvinism
ideograph / ideographical writing system
Classical Chinese writing
well versed in letters and military technology (idiom); fine scholar and soldier / master of pen and sword
Calvin (1509-1564), French protestant reformer
collected works
(bird species of China) tricoloured munia (Lonchura malacca)
Wang Hongwen (1935-1992), one of the Gang of Four
Shuowen Jiezi, the earliest systematic Chinese character dictionary, compiled by Xu Shen 許慎|许慎 in the Eastern Han dynasty (2nd century), containing 10,516 entries
digest (of literature) / to make a digest (of data) / summary
palindrome
Calvin (name)
secretary
literary (rather than colloquial) pronunciation of a Chinese character
Slovenia
translated text
civilian post (as opposed to military) / civil service / administration
heritage trail
luminous style
Lord Kelvin 1824-1907, British physicist (William Thomson) / Kelvin (temperature scale)
briefcase / attaché case
grammar
constellation governing scholarship and examinations; (fig.) renowned literary genius / brand name of handheld electronic dictionaries made by Beijing company Golden Global View
to state in writing (laws, rules etc)
hydrology
advertorial
cultural layer (in an archaeological dig)
civil and military
Manjushri, the Bodhisattva of keen awareness
this text / article / the main body of a book

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