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文化
Mandarin · pinyin wén huà
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2–4 · wen2 hua4
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Rime Cantonese 粵拼
man4 faa3
Cantonese word readings for 文化. This lexicon supplies readings, not definitions.
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noun
- (countable, uncountable) culture (Classifier: 個／个; 種／种)
- (uncountable) education; literacy
- (archaeology, countable) archaeological culture (recurring assemblage of artifacts from a specific time and place that may constitute the material culture remains of a particular past human society)
- (literary, archaic, uncountable) education through teaching morality, literature and music
name
- (～里) an urban village in Tamsui district, New Taipei City, Taiwan
- (～社區) Wenhua (a residential community in Ruoqiang, Ruoqiang, Bayingolin prefecture, Xinjiang autonomous region, China)
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