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Beyond N1nounLevel estimated by Bebop

和わ文ぶん

wabun

Japanese text

Example sentences

  1. この和文わぶんをフランス語ごに訳やくしてください。

    Please translate this Japanese text into French.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  2. もっとも試験科目しけんかもくは東大法学部とうだいほうがくぶの場合ばあい、英文和訳えいぶんわやく、和文わぶん英訳えいやくのみだった。

    However, in the case of University Tokyo Faculty of Law, the examination subjects were only translation from English to Japanese and from Japanese to English.

    KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

  3. 文体ぶんたいは漢文かんぶんによるものもあるが、多おおくは和文わぶん、それも当時とうじの口語こうごの様相ようそうをそのままにとどめたものが多おおい。

    Some were written in Chinese, but most of them were written in Japanese; there are many shomono which retain the colloquial language of those days.

    KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

Kanji in 和文

  • 和harmony; Japanese styleOnワ・オ・カKunやわらぐ・やわらげる・なごむ
  • 文sentence; literatureOnブン・モンKunふみ・あや

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