HSK 6 · Media

文艺 wényì “literature and the arts” in Chinese

Traditional 文藝

What 文艺 means

  1. literature and the arts
  2. literature and art

How to say 文艺

  • 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艺yì4th tone, falling

文艺 in a sentence

  1. 她是文艺青年。

    Tā shì wényì qīngnián.

    She’s an arty young woman.

    Sentence #2348881 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

How 文艺 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 艺 (yì) with each of its parts in a different colour
艺yìskill
  • 艹grass form of 艸 · cǎoMeaning part
  • 乙second (cyclical) · yǐSound part

艹 hints at the meaning (grass); 乙 (yǐ) hints at the sound. Compare it with yì.

How to write 文艺

文 4 strokes · 艺 4 strokes

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

Words related to 文艺

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 艺

艺术yìshù · art手艺shǒuyì · craftsmanship工艺品gōngyìpǐn · handicraft

More words: Media & Arts

通讯tōngxùn · communication图案tú'àn · pattern问世wènshì · to be published文物wénwù · cultural relic舞蹈wǔdǎo · dance武侠wǔxiá · martial arts hero相声xiàngsheng · comic dialogue (crosstalk)肖像xiàoxiàng · portrait

FAQs

文艺 (wényì) means “literature and the arts” or “literature and art”. It is an HSK 6 word.
Say it wényì: wén with a 2nd tone, then yì with a 4th 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, 文艺 is written 文藝. The pronunciation is the same.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type wenyi with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 文艺 from the suggestions. Typing wenyi into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
文艺 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.