文章

Pattern visualization

Examples

1. 短くて分かりやすい文章を書きましょう。▶ —
   Let us write short, easy-to-understand sentences.
2. この文章の意味がよく分かりません。▶ —
   I do not really understand the meaning of this passage.

Collocations

Mnemonic

文章 bunshou — 文 (writing, character) + 章 (a chapter, a section). Characters gathered into one body of writing — a sentence, a text. In Japanese, 文章 covers not only a single sentence (一文) but a whole piece made of many sentences.

Quick check

1. What does Japanese 文章 refer to?

   • from a single sentence to a whole multi-sentence text
   • a single character
   • one whole book
   • a single spoken word