to write, to compose (literary work)

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1
zhèng
zài
zhuàn
xiě
piān
xué
shù
lùn
wén

He is writing an academic paper.

2
wèi
zhì
zhuàn
gǎo稿
yǒu
nián

She has been writing for the magazine for five years.

3
zhè
ge
shì
wán
quán
shì
zhuàn
de

This story is completely fabricated.

4
zhèng
zài
zhuàn
xiě
fēng
xìn

He is writing a letter.

5
měi
tiān
zhuàn
xiě
shēng
huó
diǎn

She writes a diary every day to record bits of life.

6
zhè
wèi
zuò
jiā
huā
le
sān
nián
shí
jiān
zhuàn
xiě
zhè
xiǎo
shuō

The writer spent three years writing this novel.

Information

Traditional
Radical
Strokes15
StructureLeft-Right
Frequency#2360
Zhuyinㄓㄨㄢˋ
Components
UnicodeU+64B0
CangjieQRRJ
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Cultural note

Traditional Chinese culture often connects characters and names with the Five Elements (Wood, Fire, Earth, Metal, Water) and Yin–Yang, a system also used to describe personality tendencies.

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