Radical 67

文
← 66 Radical 67 (U+2F42) 68 →
文 (U+6587) "script, literature"
Pronunciations
Pinyin:	wén
Bopomofo:	ㄨㄣˊ
Gwoyeu Romatzyh:	wen
Wade–Giles:	wên2
Cantonese Yale:	màhn, mahn
Jyutping:	man4, man6
Pe̍h-ōe-jī:	bûn
Japanese Kana:	ブン bun / モン mon (on'yomi) ふみ fumi (kun'yomi)
Sino-Korean:	문 mun
Names
Chinese name(s):	(Top) 文字頭/文字头 wénzìtóu 文字旁 wénzìpáng
Japanese name(s):	文/ぶん bun 文繞/ぶんにょう bunnyō 文旁/ふみづくり fumizukuri
Hangul:	글월 geurwol
Stroke order animation

Radical 67 or radical script (文部) meaning "script" or "literature" is one of the 34 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 4 strokes.

In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 26 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.

文 is also the 93rd indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China.

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  Oracle bone script character
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  Bronze script character
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  Large seal script character
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  Small seal script character

The Unihan Database classifies the Simplified Chinese character 齐 and Japanese shinjitai 斉 and 斎 under this radical. However, 齐 actually belongs to radical 齐 (齊) (Simplified Chinese characters radical #140, =Kangxi Radical 210) in mainland China's standard^[1] and Simplified Chinese dictionaries; 斉 and 斎 usually falls under radical 斉 (齊) (or "齊 (斉)" depending on each dictionary's standard) in Japanese dictionaries.

The radical is also used as an independent Chinese character. It is one of the Kyōiku kanji or kanji taught in elementary school in Japan.^[2] It is a first grade kanji.^[2]

• Fazzioli, Edoardo (1987). Chinese calligraphy : from pictograph to ideogram : the history of 214 essential Chinese/Japanese characters. calligraphy by Rebecca Hon Ko. New York: Abbeville Press. ISBN 0-89659-774-1.
• Lunde, Ken (Jan 5, 2009). "Appendix J: Japanese Character Sets" (PDF). CJKV Information Processing: Chinese, Japanese, Korean & Vietnamese Computing (Second ed.). Sebastopol, Calif.: O'Reilly Media. ISBN 978-0-596-51447-1.

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