文句

Chinese

		language; culture; writing language; culture; writing; formal; literary; gentle	(a measure word, for sentences or lines of verse); sentence
simp. and trad. (文句)		文	句

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): wénjù

  (Zhuyin): ㄨㄣˊ ㄐㄩˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): man⁴ geoi³
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): bûn-kù

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)
    • Hanyu Pinyin: wénjù
    • Zhuyin: ㄨㄣˊ ㄐㄩˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: wúnjyù
    • Wade–Giles: wên²-chü⁴
    • Yale: wén-jyù
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: wenjiuh
    • Palladius: вэньцзюй (vɛnʹczjuj)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /wən³⁵ t͡ɕy⁵¹/
    • Homophones:

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• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: man⁴ geoi³
    • Yale: màhn geui
    • Cantonese Pinyin: man⁴ goey³
    • Guangdong Romanization: men⁴ gêu³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /mɐn²¹ kɵy̯³³/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: bûn-kù
    • Tâi-lô: bûn-kù
    • Phofsit Daibuun: bunkux
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /bun¹³⁻²² ku²¹/
    • IPA (Xiamen): /bun²⁴⁻²² ku²¹/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /bun²⁴⁻²² ku⁴¹/

Noun

文句

1. text and wording in an article

Related terms

• 詞句／词句 (cíjù)
• 話語／话语 (huàyǔ)
• 語句／语句 (yǔjù)

Japanese

Kanji in this term
文	句
もん Grade: 1	く Grade: 5
on'yomi

Pronunciation

• (Tokyo) もんく [móꜜǹkù] (Atamadaka – [1])
• IPA^(key): [mõ̞ŋkɯ̟]

Noun

文(もん)句(く) • (monku) 

1. complaint

   文句(もんく)あるか？

   Monku aru ka?

   Any problems?

   文句(もんく)を言(い)う

   monku o iu

   to complain

   (literally, “to speak complaints”)

2. phrase, words

Derived terms

• かき文(もん)句(く) (kakimonku)
• 凄(すご)文(もん)句(く) (sugomonku)
• 名(めい)文(もん)句(く) (meimonku)
• 地(じ)文(もん)句(く) (jimonku)
• 売(う)り文(もん)句(く) (urimonku)
• 指(さし)図(ず)文(もん)句(く) (sashizumonku)
• 文(もん)句(く)入(い)り (monkuiri)
• 文(もん)句(く)無(な)し (monkunashi)
• 殺(ころ)し文(もん)句(く) (koroshimonku)
• 決(きま)り文(もん)句(く) (kimarimonku)
• 法(ほっ)華(け)文(もん)句(ぐ) (hokkemongu)
• 翳(かざ)し文(もん)句(く) (kazashimonku)
• 脅(おど)し文(もん)句(く) (odoshimonku)
• 謳(うた)い文(もん)句(く) (utaimonku)