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Exact character matches appear first. For otherwise comparable matches, frequency in film and television subtitles helps determine order. Direct English-definition matches and prefix matches also affect ranking. Word length and the availability of usage notes do not improve rank.

Frequency data: Cai & Brysbaert, SUBTLEX-CH (2010), Creative Commons Attribution. The data includes word forms with at least 10 occurrences in an older subtitle sample. It does not provide current frequency or HSK levels. Absence from the sample does not establish that a word is rare. Names, variants and restricted readings identified in the source appear after general-use entries within the same match type.

沙文主义shā wén zhǔ yì

chauvinism

洋文yáng wén

foreign language (esp. Western) (old)

浅层文字qiǎn céng wén zì

shallow orthography (governed by simple rules)

温文wēn wén

genteel

演示文稿yǎn shì wén gǎo

(PPT etc) presentation

炳文bǐng wén

luminous style

物质文明wù zhì wén míng

material culture

物质文明和精神文明wù zhì wén míng hé jīng shén wén míng

material and spiritual culture / matter and mind / material progress, ideology and culture (philosophic slogan, adopted into Deng Xiaoping theory from 1978)

独立中文笔会dú lì Zhōng wén bǐ huì

Independent Chinese PEN center

甲骨文jiǎ gǔ wén

oracle script / oracle bone inscriptions (an early form of Chinese script)

甲骨文字jiǎ gǔ wén zì

oracle script / oracle bone character (an early form of Chinese script)

异文yì wén

variant character / loan word / variant written form (for the same word) / different edition

发文fā wén

to issue a document / document issued by an authority / outgoing messages / (Internet) to post an article online

白文bái wén

the text of an annotated book / an unannotated edition of a book / intagliated characters (on a seal)

白腰文鸟bái yāo wén niǎo

(bird species of China) white-rumped munia (Lonchura striata)

白话文bái huà wén

writings in the vernacular

石鼓文shí gǔ wén

early form of Chinese characters inscribed in stone, a precursor of the small seal 小篆[xiǎo zhuàn]

社会达尔文主义shè huì Dá ěr wén zhǔ yì

social Darwinism

祭文jì wén

funeral oration / eulogy / elegiac address

符文fú wén

rune

籀文zhòu wén

seal script used throughout the pre-Han period

粗鲁不文cū lǔ bù wén

crude and ill-educated (idiom)

精神文明jīng shén wén míng

spiritual culture

精灵文jīng líng wén

Elvish (language of elves)

红头文件hóng tóu wén jiàn

red-letterhead document, an official document with the name of the issuing government agency printed in red at the top, circulated to relevant bodies

纯文字chún wén zì

text-only (webpage, slide etc)

纯文本chún wén běn

(computing) plain text

绝密文件jué mì wén jiàn

top secret document / classified papers

经济社会及文化权利国际公约jīng jì shè huì jí wén huà quán lì guó jì gōng yuē

International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR)

网文wǎng wén

online literature, esp. web novels (abbr. for 網絡文學|网络文学[wǎng luò wén xué])

缀文zhuì wén

to compose an essay

繁文fán wén

convoluted / elaborate formalities

绳文shéng wén

Jyōmon period of Japanese prehistory, with rope pattern pottery

绘文字huì wén zì

emoji

能诗善文néng shī shàn wén

highly literate / lit. capable at poetry, proficient at prose

舞文弄墨wǔ wén nòng mò

(idiom) to display one's facility with words / to show off one's literary skills / (original meaning) to pervert the law by playing with legal phraseology (墨[mò] was a reference to 繩墨|绳墨[shéng mò])

虚文xū wén

dead letter / rule no longer in force / empty formality

虚文浮礼xū wén fú lǐ

empty formality

行文xíng wén

writing style (formal) / to send an official written communication

表意文字biǎo yì wén zì

ideograph / ideographical writing system

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