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文言文
Mandarin: wen2 yan2 wen2
noun
文
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言
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文
T4
Definitions
  1. 1 Classical Chinese; Literary Chinese -- written Chinese based on the grammar of Old Chinese (上古漢語). It was eventually replaced in the early 20th century by 白話文, Vernacular Chinese, which is written Chinese based on the Mandarin dialect. noun
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