wén

culture

How it’s built

Pictograph of a man with writing (possibly a tattoo) on his chest. In later scripts the writing was abbreviated to a dot or omitted altogether.

Through the ages

Oracle bone script

Bronze script

Seal script

Appears in

Characters that use 文 as a component, most common first.

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