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Mandarin · pinyin wén zhāng

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文: wén · literature, culture, writing
章: zhāng · composition; chapter, section

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2–1 · wen2 zhang1

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Rime Cantonese 粵拼

man4 zoeng1

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noun

essay; composition; article (in a newspaper, magazine, on the Internet, etc.) (Classifier: 篇)
literary work; writing; text
hidden meaning; implied meaning
(Internet) message; post
(archaic, literary) pattern

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