The Japanese Radical: 文


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Explanation Looks like a folding table, at which you can write your text.

Used in these characters:
JLPT 4Joyo 1
text, writing
fumi, BUN, MON
Looks like a folding table
At the folding table 文 you can write your text.  
JLPT 3Joyo 3
opposite, versus, pair
TAI, TSUI
Left: text/writing 文 (A folding table 文 for writing a text.), right: skillful hand 寸.
A writing of a skillful hand against this pair.  
JLPT 1Joyo 7
mosquito
ka, BUN
Left: insect 虫 (body 口 and sting ム of an insect), right: text 文 (A folding table 文 for writing a text.)
The insect on the text is a mosquito. (It makes the sound: BUN)  
JLPT 1Joyo 7
purification, abstain, exorcise
SAI
Top: text 文 (A folding table 文 for writing a text.), below center: to show, altar 示, outside: limitation 亅丨
A text on the altar explains the limits of (inner) purification.  
JLPT 1Joyo 7
medicine, chemical, drug, dose
ZAI
Left: equal/similar 斉 (For writing a text you need a sheet 亅丨 with lines 二 to make it uniform/similar., right: knife 刂
Similar to a knife is the effect of this medicine.  
JLPT 1Joyo 7
uniform, adjusted, equal, similar, assemble, alike
hitoshii, SEI
Top: text 文 (A folding table 文 for writing a text.), bottom: two vertical strokes 亅丨 as sheet/scroll and two horizontal strokes 二 as lines
For writing a text you need a sheet 亅丨 with lines to make it uniform.  
JLPT 1Joyo 7
family's emblem, escutcheon, pattern
MON
Left: thread 糸, right: text, sentence 文 - Similar to 'picture 絵' (= Threads 糸 meet 会 in the embroidered picture.) also the family's emblem is stitched.
Threads form the 'text' in a family's emblem or a textile pattern.  
JLPT -Joyo 7
stain, spot, speckle, blemish
HAN
From left: king 王, text/letter 文 (A folding table 文 for writing your text.), king 王
(Here everything must be free of any flaw:) If a king (writes) a letter to a king, it counts every: stain or blemish.  

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