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Kanji for Letters
The kanji for “letters” is 文, read bun and written in 4 strokes. Here is what it means, how it is read, and the names it is used in.
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Writing, literature and culture; a love of words and learning.
Bunraku is Japan's UNESCO-inscribed classical puppet theater, featuring master puppeteers manipulating nearly human-sized wooden puppets.
4 strokes On reading ブン、モン (bun, mon) Kun reading ふみ、あや (fumi, aya) JLPT N3
Dictionary meanings: sentence, literature, style, art, decoration
Readings used for names on Nazuke: aya, fu, fumi, bun, mon
In Japan it appears in about 1,150 given names in the JMnedict name dictionary, mostly in girls’ names.
Names written with 文: Steven 寿天文 · Stephen 寿天文 · Ibnu 唯文野 · Bunga 文賀 · Benoit 文之和 · Miroslav 実路寿楽文
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