HSK 5 · Objects

文具 wénjù “stationery (pens” in Chinese

Same in Traditional

What 文具 means

  1. stationery (pens, pencils, rubbers)
  2. stationery
  3. item of stationery (pen, pencil, rubber, pencil sharpener etc)

How to say 文具

  • 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具jù4th tone, falling

文具 in a sentence

  1. 哪些文具不值得买？

    Nǎxiē wénjù bù zhíde mǎi?

    Which stationery isn’t worth buying?

    Sentence #9952512 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  2. 这些都是他的文具。

    Zhèxiē dōu shì tā de wénjù.

    This stationery is all his.

    Sentence #727804 from Tatoeba · converted to simplified characters · translation adapted

How 文具 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 具 (jù) with each of its parts in a different colour
具jùtool
  • 目eye · mù
  • 一one · yī
  • 八eight · bā

How to write 文具

文 4 strokes · 具 8 strokes

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

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

Words related to 文具

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 具

家具jiājù · furniture具备jùbèi · to possess具体jùtǐ · specific工具gōngjù · tool玩具wánjù · plaything

More words: Objects & Materials

梳子shūzi · comb丝绸sīchóu · silk cloth锁suǒ · to lock玩具wánjù · plaything亿yì · 100 million银yín · silver原料yuánliào · raw material磅bàng · pound (weight)

FAQs

文具 (wénjù) means “stationery (pens, pencils, rubbers)” or “stationery”. It is an HSK 5 word.
Say it wénjù: wén with a 2nd tone, then jù with a 4th tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
Yes. 文具 is written the same way in Simplified and Traditional characters.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type wenju with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 文具 from the suggestions. Typing wenju into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
文具 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.