HSK 6 · Media

文物 wénwù “cultural relic” in Chinese

Same in Traditional

What 文物 means

  1. cultural relic
  2. artefact
  3. historical relic

Measure word 件 jiàn or 个 gè · 一件文物 yí jiàn wénwù

How to say 文物

  • 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 fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale物wù4th tone, falling

文物 in a sentence

  1. 爱护文物，人人有责。

    Àihù wénwù, rénrén yǒu zé.

    Protecting cultural relics is everyone’s responsibility.

    Sentence #6089712 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

How 文物 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 物 (wù) with each of its parts in a different colour
物wùthing
  • 牛cow · niúMeaning part
  • 勿must not · wùSound part

牛 hints at the meaning (cow); 勿 (wù) hints at the sound. Compare it with wù.

Memory aidAn ox 牛, which the oldest Chinese dictionary calls the largest of things, with 勿 (wù) for the sound: a thing.

How to write 文物

文 4 strokes · 物 8 strokes

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

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

Words related to 文物

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文学wénxué · literature

Words with 物

动物dòngwù · animal礼物lǐwù · gift动物园dòngwùyuán · zoo购物gòuwù · shopping植物zhíwù · plant宠物chǒngwù · house pet人物rénwù · figure食物shíwù · food物理wùlǐ · physics物质wùzhì · matter

More words: Media & Arts

童话tónghuà · fairy tale通讯tōngxùn · communication图案tú'àn · pattern问世wènshì · to be published文艺wényì · literature and the arts舞蹈wǔdǎo · dance武侠wǔxiá · martial arts hero相声xiàngsheng · comic dialogue (crosstalk)

FAQs

文物 (wénwù) means “cultural relic” or “artefact”. It is an HSK 6 word.
Say it wénwù: wén with a 2nd tone, then wù with a 4th tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
Yes. 文物 is written the same way in Simplified and Traditional characters.
Use 件 (jiàn) or 个 (gè). For example, one cultural relic is 一件文物 (yí jiàn wénwù).
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type wenwu with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 文物 from the suggestions. Typing wenwu into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
文物 is an HSK 6 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.