文選

Chinese

		language; culture; writing language; culture; writing; formal; literary; gentle	to choose; to pick; to select to choose; to pick; to select; to elect
trad. (文選)		文	選
simp. (文选)		文	选

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): wénxuǎn

  (Zhuyin): ㄨㄣˊ ㄒㄩㄢˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): man⁴ syun²
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): bûn-soán

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: wénxuǎn
    • Zhuyin: ㄨㄣˊ ㄒㄩㄢˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: wúnsyuǎn
    • Wade–Giles: wên²-hsüan³
    • Yale: wén-sywǎn
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: wensheuan
    • Palladius: вэньсюань (vɛnʹsjuanʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /wən³⁵ ɕy̯ɛn²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: man⁴ syun²
    • Yale: màhn syún
    • Cantonese Pinyin: man⁴ syn²
    • Guangdong Romanization: men⁴ xun²
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /mɐn²¹ syːn³⁵/
    • Homophones:

      edit edit 文選／文选 民選／民选

• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: bûn-soán
    • Tâi-lô: bûn-suán
    • Phofsit Daibuun: bunsoarn
    • IPA (Xiamen): /bun²⁴⁻²² suan⁵³/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /bun²⁴⁻²² suan⁵⁵⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /bun¹³⁻²² suan⁵³/
    • IPA (Taipei): /bun²⁴⁻¹¹ suan⁵³/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /bun²³⁻³³ suan⁴¹/

Noun

文選

1. anthology (collection of literary works)

Proper noun

文選

1. Wen Xuan (an anthology of Chinese poetry and literature compiled between 520-530 CE by Xiao Tong, the crown prince of Liang)

Descendants

Sino-Xenic (文選):

• → Japanese: 文選(ぶんせん) (bunsen)
• → Korean: 문선(文選) (munseon)

Japanese

Etymology 1

Kanji in this term
文	選
ぶん Grade: 1	せん Grade: 4
kan’on

文 (“literature; text”) +‎ 選 (“selection; picking”)

Pronunciation

• (Tokyo) ぶんせん [bùńséń] (Heiban – [0])
• IPA^(key): [bɯ̟̃ᵝɰ̃sẽ̞ɴ]

Noun

文(ぶん)選(せん) • (bunsen) 

1. (literature) an anthology
2. (typography) type picking (historically, the picking of movable type for later typesetting)

   Holonym: 組版

   Coordinate term: 植字

   文(ぶん)選(せん)工(こう)

   bunsenkō

   a type picker

Verb

文(ぶん)選(せん)する • (bunsen suru) suru (stem 文(ぶん)選(せん)し (bunsen shi), past 文(ぶん)選(せん)した (bunsen shita))

1. (typography) to pick type

Etymology 2

Kanji in this term
文	選
もん Grade: 1	せん > ぜん Grade: 4
goon

Literary Chinese 文選 (wénxuǎn)

Proper noun

文(もん)選(ぜん) • (Monzen) 

1. the Selections of Refined Literature

See also

• 文(もん)選(ぜん)読(よ)み (Monzen'yomi)

Korean

Hanja in this term
文	選

Noun

文選 • (munseon) (hangeul 문선)

1. Hanja form^? of 문선 (“anthology”).