かんぶん
Meanings
Noun
1. Chinese classical writing; Chinese classics
2. writing composed entirely of kanji
Pitch accent
んぶん
Composed of
China; Han dynasty (China, 202 BCE-220 CE); Han (majority Chinese ethnic group); man
sentence; composition; text; the literary arts (as opposed to the military arts); academia; statement
Used in vocabulary (6 in total)
Chinese classical literature; Chinese classics
reading a classical Chinese text in Japanese
dictionary of kanbun grammar and usage
regular kanbun (following the rules of classical Chinese grammar)
Japanized version of classical Chinese (used from Heian period onward)
kanbun converted into literary Japanese