文字もじ

Chinese

		language; culture; writing language; culture; writing; formal; literary; gentle	letter; symbol; character letter; symbol; character; word
simp. and trad. (文字もじ)		文ぶん	字じ

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文字もじ (Written Standard Chinese^?)
文字もじ (Cantonese)
文字もじ (Classical)
bûn-jī (Southern Min)
文字もじ (Wu)

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Standard)
(Pinyin): wénzì

(Zhuyin): ㄨㄣˊ ㄗˋ

(Dungan, Cyrillic and Wiktionary): вынзы (vɨnzɨ, I-III)
Cantonese (Jyutping): man⁴ zi⁶
Hakka (Sixian, PFS): vùn-sṳ
Eastern Min (BUC): ùng-cê
Southern Min
(Hokkien, POJ): bûn-lī / bûn-jī

(Teochew, Peng'im): bhung⁵ ri⁷

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: wénzì
  - Zhuyin: ㄨㄣˊ ㄗˋ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: wúnzìh
  - Wade–Giles: wên²-tzŭ⁴
  - Yale: wén-dz̀
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: wentzyh
  - Palladius: вэньцзы (vɛnʹczy)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /wən³⁵ t͡sz̩⁵¹/
- (Dungan)
  - Cyrillic and Wiktionary: вынзы (vɨnzɨ, I-III)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /vəŋ²⁴ t͡sz̩⁴⁴/
  (Note: Dungan pronunciation is currently experimental and may be inaccurate.)
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
  - Jyutping: man⁴ zi⁶
  - Yale: màhn jih
  - Cantonese Pinyin: man⁴ dzi⁶
  - Guangdong Romanization: men⁴ ji⁶
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /mɐn²¹ t͡siː²²/
Hakka
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
  - Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: vùn-sṳ
  - Hakka Romanization System: vun^ˇ sii
  - Hagfa Pinyim: vun² si⁴
  - Sinological IPA: /vun¹¹ sɨ⁵⁵/
Eastern Min
- (Fuzhou)
  - Bàng-uâ-cê: ùng-cê
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /uŋ⁵³⁻²¹ ^(t͡s-)ʒɛi²⁴²/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien: Quanzhou, General Taiwanese, Xiamen)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: bûn-lī
  - Tâi-lô: bûn-lī
  - Phofsit Daibuun: bunli
  - IPA (Taipei): /bun²⁴⁻¹¹ li³³/
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /bun²⁴⁻²² li⁴¹/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /bun²³⁻³³ li³³/
  - IPA (Xiamen): /bun²⁴⁻²² li²²/
- (Hokkien: Kaohsiung, Zhangzhou)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: bûn-jī
  - Tâi-lô: bûn-jī
  - Phofsit Daibuun: bunji
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /bun²³⁻³³ zi³³/
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /bun¹³⁻²² d͡zi²²/
- (Teochew)
  - Peng'im: bhung⁵ ri⁷
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: bûng jī
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /buŋ⁵⁵⁻¹¹ d͡zi¹¹/

Middle Chinese: mjun dziH

Rime
Character	文ぶん	字じ
Reading #	1/1	1/1
Initial (聲こえ)	明あきら (4)	從したがえ (15)
Final (韻いん)	文ぶん (59)	之これ (19)
Tone (調しらべ)	Level (Ø)	Departing (H)
Openness (開ひらき合あい)	Closed	Open
Division (等ひとし)	III	III
Fanqie	無む分ぶん切きり	疾やまし置おけ切きり
Baxter	mjun	dziH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/mɨun/	/d͡zɨ^H/
Pan Wuyun	/miun/	/d͡zɨ^H/
Shao Rongfen	/miuən/	/d͡zie^H/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/mun/	/d͡zɨ^H/
Li Rong	/miuən/	/d͡ziə^H/
Wang Li	/mĭuən/	/d͡zĭə^H/
Bernard Karlgren	/mi̯uən/	/d͡zʱi^H/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	wén	zì
Expected Cantonese Reflex	man⁴	zi⁶

Old Chinese
(Baxter–Sagart): /*mə[n] mə-dzə(ʔ)-s/

(Zhengzhang): /*mɯn zlɯs/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	文ぶん	字じ
Reading #	1/1	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	wén	zì
Middle Chinese	‹ mjun ›	‹ dzi^H ›
Old Chinese	/*mə[n]/	/*mə-dzə(ʔ)-s/
English	ornate	breed, love (v.); character
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; * Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. [t] as coda may in fact be -t or -p; Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; * Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; * Period "." indicates syllable boundary.

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	文ぶん	字じ
Reading #	1/1	1/1
No.	13015	17864
Phonetic component	文ぶん	子こ
Rime group	文ぶん	之これ
Rime subdivision	1	0
Corresponding MC rime	文ぶん	字じ
Old Chinese	/*mɯn/	/*zlɯs/
Notes		子こ分ぶん化か字じ

Noun

文字もじ

written symbols; writing; script; text; characters (Classifier: 種たね／种; 個こ／个)
writing style wording; language (Classifier: 種たね／种; 個こ／个)

Synonyms

(writing): 筆墨ひつぼく／笔墨 (bǐmò)

Derived terms

Related terms

Descendants

Sino-Xenic (文字もじ):

→ Japanese: 文ぶん(もん)字じ(じ) (monji)
→ Korean: 문자(文字もじ) (munja)
→ Vietnamese: văn tự (文字もじ)

Japanese

Etymology 1

Kanji in this term
文ぶん	字じ
もん Grade: 1	じ Grade: 1
goon

From Middle Chinese 文字もじ (MC mjun dziH, literally “writing + character”). Compare modern Cantonese reading man⁴ zi⁶.

Pronunciation

(Tokyo) もんじ [móꜜǹjì] (Atamadaka – [1])^[1]^[2]
IPA^(key): [mõ̞ɲ̟d͡ʑi]

Noun

文ぶん(もん)字じ(じ) • (monji)

a letter, a character (symbol for a sound or a word)
(linguistics) script, writing system
(specific to Japanese) a written mora, a kana
writing in general, written words
(by extension from the “writing” sense) a document
(by extension from the “writing” sense) reading and writing
(by extension from the “writing” sense) studies

Usage notes

This reading is less common than moji, below.

Etymology 2

Kanji in this term
文ぶん	字じ
もん > も Grade: 1	じ Grade: 1
irregular	goon

/mond͡ʑi/ → /mod͡ʑi/

Sound shift from monji above.^[3]

Pronunciation

(Tokyo) もじ [móꜜjì] (Atamadaka – [1])^[2]^[1]^[4]
IPA^(key): [mo̞ʑi]

Noun

文ぶん(も)字じ(じ) • (moji)

a letter or character (symbol for a sound or a word)
(linguistics) script, writing system
(specific to Japanese) a written mora, a kana
writing in general, written words
(by extension from the “writing” sense) a document
(by extension from the “writing” sense) reading and writing
(by extension from the “writing” sense) studies
(chiefly Kansai) the tails side of a coin, the side with writing on it
(chiefly Kansai, by extension) a coin, money

Usage notes

This reading is more common than monji above.

The tails and coin, money senses are specific to this moji reading.^[3]

Derived terms

顔かお(かお)文ぶん(も)字じ(じ) (kaomoji): smiley
絵え(え)文ぶん(も)字じ(じ) (emoji): emoji (not to be confused with emoticon)
大だい(おお)文ぶん(も)字じ(じ) (ōmoji): uppercase letter
小しょう(こ)文ぶん(も)字じ(じ) (komoji): lowercase letter
キリル文ぶん(も)字じ(じ) (kiriru moji): Cyrillic letter
文ぶん(も)字じ(じ)通つう(どお)り (mojidōri): literal, literally
文ぶん(も)字じ(じ)化か(ば)け (mojibake): corrupt characters or letters, especially from display or transfer through an inappropriate character set or encoding, e.g., •¶Žš‰»‚¯, which is a corruption of 文字もじ化ばけ

References

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 NHK Broadcasting Culture Research Institute, editor (1998), NHK日本語にほんご発音はつおんアクセント辞典じてん [NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary] (in Japanese), Tokyo: NHK Publishing, Inc., →ISBN
↑ ^2.0 ^2.1 Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林だいじりん [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN
↑ ^3.0 ^3.1 Shōgaku Tosho (1988) 国語こくご大だい辞典じてん（新装しんそう版ばん） [Unabridged Dictionary of Japanese (Revised Edition)] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, →ISBN
^ Kindaichi, Kyōsuke et al., editors (1997), 新しん明解めいかい国語こくご辞典じてん [Shin Meikai Kokugo Jiten] (in Japanese), Fifth edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN

Korean

Hanja in this term
文ぶん	字じ

Noun

文字もじ • (munja) (hangeul 문자)

hanja form^? of 문자 (“letter”)

Vietnamese

chữ Hán Nôm in this term
文ぶん	字じ

Noun

文字もじ

chữ Hán form of văn tự (“writing system, script”).

[NHK-1] 1.0 ^1.1 NHK Broadcasting Culture Research Institute, editor (1998), NHK日本語にほんご発音はつおんアクセント辞典じてん [NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary] (in Japanese), Tokyo: NHK Publishing, Inc., →ISBN

[DJR-2] 2.0 ^2.1 Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林だいじりん [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN

[KDJ-3] 3.0 ^3.1 Shōgaku Tosho (1988) 国語こくご大だい辞典じてん（新装しんそう版ばん） [Unabridged Dictionary of Japanese (Revised Edition)] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, →ISBN

[SMK5-4] Kindaichi, Kyōsuke et al., editors (1997), 新しん明解めいかい国語こくご辞典じてん [Shin Meikai Kokugo Jiten] (in Japanese), Fifth edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN

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