Illustration: At the kitchen table of a Japanese home, an adult holds an unfolded personal letter with its contents facing them and the blank reverse toward the viewer. Their eyes follow the page, and an initially composed expression softens into a relieved smile with moist eyes.

JLPT N1nounLevel estimated by Bebop

文ぶん面めん

bunmen

wording, written contents

Example sentences

手紙てがみの文面ぶんめんは次つぎの通とおり。
The letter runs as follows.
Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source
その文面ぶんめんからはそれ以上いじょうを知しることはできない。
It is not possible to know more from that writing.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source
大日本帝国憲法だいにっぽんていこくけんぽうでは文面ぶんめん上じょうは信教しんきょうの自由じゆうが明記めいきされていた。
The Constitution of the Empire of Japan ostensibly stipulated freedom of religion.
KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

Kanji in 文面

文sentence; literatureOnブン・モンKunふみ・あや
面mask; faceOnメン・ベンKunおも・おもて・つら

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