HSK 5 · Media

文学 wénxué “literature” in Chinese

Traditional 文學

What 文学 means

  1. literature

How to say 文学

  • Pitch chart of the second tone: rises from mid to high, 3 to 5 on the five-level scale文wén2nd tone, rising
  • Pitch chart of the second tone: rises from mid to high, 3 to 5 on the five-level scale学xué2nd tone, rising

文学 in a sentence

  1. 我也很喜欢文学。

    Wǒ yě hěn xǐhuan wénxué.

    I really like literature too.

    Sentence #9989912 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  2. 他在大学主修文学。

    Tā zài dàxué zhǔxiū wénxué.

    He majored in literature at university.

    Sentence #5694554 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  3. 这家出版社专门出版儿童文学。

    Zhè jiā chūbǎnshè zhuānmén chūbǎn értóng wénxué.

    This publisher specialises in children’s literature.

    Sentence #3149460 from Tatoeba · converted to simplified characters · translation adapted

How 文学 is built

Each colour is one part of the character. Parts repeat across thousands of characters, so learning them makes new words easier. See all 214 in our radicals chart.

The character 文 (wén) with each of its parts in a different colour
文wénlanguage
  • 亠lid · tóu
  • 乂to govern · yì

Memory aidDrawn from a person with a pattern on the chest. It came to mean writing and culture.

The character 学 (xué) with each of its parts in a different colour
学xuéto learn
  • ⺍small form of 小 · xiǎo
  • 冖cover · mì
  • 子child · zǐ

Memory aidA roof 冖 over a child 子 at study.

How to write 文学

文 4 strokes · 学 8 strokes

Watch the order, then press Try writing it and draw each stroke in the grid. Each stroke is checked as you go.

文学 (wénxué) stroke order chart: each stroke of the characters in the order you write them
Stroke order chart for 文学 (wénxué). Red marks the next stroke, so you can copy it onto paper one step at a time.

Words related to 文学

Words with 文

中文Zhōngwén · Chinese language文化wénhuà · culture课文kèwén · text (of a lesson)文章wénzhāng · article文明wénmíng · civilised论文lùnwén · paper文字wénzì · writing作文zuòwén · to write an essay文件wénjiàn · document文具wénjù · stationery (pens

Words with 学

学xué · to learn学生xuésheng · student同学tóngxué · classmate学校xuéxiào · school学习xuéxí · to study大学dàxué · university上学shàngxué · to go to school小学xiǎoxué · elementary school中学zhōngxué · middle school大学生dàxuéshēng · university student

More words: Media & Arts

色彩sècǎi · colour摄影shèyǐng · to take a photograph神话shénhuà · legend诗shī · poem戏剧xìjù · drama印刷yìnshuā · to print乐器yuèqì · musical instrument展览zhǎnlǎn · to put on display

FAQs

文学 (wénxué) means “literature”. It is an HSK 5 word.
Say it wénxué: wén with a 2nd tone, then xué with a 2nd tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
In Traditional characters, used in Taiwan and Hong Kong, 文学 is written 文學. The pronunciation is the same.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type wenxue with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 文学 from the suggestions. Typing wenxue into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
文学 is an HSK 5 word in the HSK 2.0 word lists.

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Sources: meaning and pinyin checked by a native Mandarin teacher against the official HSK lists. Extra meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.