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JLPT N1 Vocabulary

文語ぶんご (bungo)

written language, literary language

  • JLPT N1
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Meaning

文語 (ぶんご, bungo) is a JLPT N1 vocabulary word meaning “written language, literary language”.

Kanji in this word

文 sentence 語 word

Example sentences 6

その 本ほんは 文語ぶんご 体たいで 書かかれている

The book is written in a literary style.

特に、口語調の3番目のものと、文語調の2番目のものが有名である。

Particularly, the third one in the spoken version and the second one in the literary version are famous.

現在では書き下し体（文語体）に直された岩波文庫上中下巻が刊行している。

At present, three-volume Iwanami paperback edition which changed the Chinese classics into Japanese (bungotai [Japanese literary style]) has been published.

ただし、『ドゥーフ・ハルマ』は文語よりも口語を重視して記載し、豊富な文例も収録されている。

"Doeff Halma" placed more importance on spoken language than on literary language, and recorded a wide range of model sentences.