Taiwan Mandarin

DictionaryCommon words斯文

WordTOCFL Level 5stative verb (adj.)Taiwan frequency #19,825

斯文

sīwén·ㄙㄨㄣˊ

“refined; cultured; polite; gentle; (archaic) Confucian rites and education; (archaic) Confucian scholar”

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This; here; thus; such; emphatic particle; phonetic character used in transliterations; archaic pronoun for 'this' or 'here'; archaic adverb for 'all'; archaic conjunction for 'then'.

Writing; language; culture; literary; gentle; a pattern or design; surname Wen.