Literature in Chinese
literature · HSK 5
文学
- 文 writing
- 学 to study
她从小就很喜欢文学。 She has loved literature since she was little.
Other ways to say literature
More words with 文 or 学
How do you say literature in Chinese?
Literature in Chinese is 文学 (wén xué). You can also say 书籍 (shū jí), 文献 (wén xiàn).
Which word should I use?
Start with the first one: it is the easiest on the HSK list. The others say it too, often in a more formal way or for a narrower sense; each one’s page has real sentences that show how it is used.
Where do these words come from?
Our own dictionary’s meanings for the official HSK word list. A word is shown for an English word when that is one of its first meanings; the easiest word whose first meaning it is comes first.
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