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散文

散文

Chinese

		adjourn; scatter; leisurely adjourn; scatter; leisurely; loosen; powdered medicine; to scatter; to come loose	language; culture; writing language; culture; writing; formal; literary; gentle
simp. and trad. (散文)		散	文

Noun

散文

prose (Classifier: 篇)

Derived terms

散文家 (sǎnwénjiā)

散文詩／散文诗 (sǎnwénshī)

Japanese

Kanji in this term
散	文
さん Grade: 4	ぶん Grade: 1
on'yomi

Noun

散文 ‎(hiragana さんぶん, romaji sanbun)

prose

Korean

Hanja in this term
散	文

Noun

散文 • ‎(sanmun) ‎(hangeul 산문)

Hanja form^? of 산문, “prose”.

Pronunciation

Mandarin

(Pinyin): sǎnwén

(Zhuyin): ㄙㄢˇ ㄨㄣˊ
Cantonese (Jyutping): saan² man⁴
Min Nan (POJ): sàn-bûn

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
  - Pinyin: sǎnwén
  - Zhuyin: ㄙㄢˇ ㄨㄣˊ
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: saanwen
  - IPA ^(key): /sa̠n²¹⁴⁻²¹¹ u̯ən³⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
  - Jyutping: saan² man⁴
  - Yale: sáan màhn
  - Cantonese Pinyin: saan² man⁴
  - IPA ^(key): /sɑːn³⁵ mɐn²¹/
Min Nan
- (Hokkien)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: sàn-bûn
  - Tâi-lô: sàn-bûn
  - Phofsit Daibuun: sarnbuun
  - IPA (Xiamen): /san²¹⁻⁵³ bun²⁴/
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /san⁴¹⁻⁵⁵⁴ bun²⁴/
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /san²¹⁻⁵³ bun¹³/
  - IPA (Taipei): /san¹¹⁻⁵³ bun²⁴/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /san²¹⁻⁴¹ bun²³/