文句

Chinese

		language; culture; writing language; culture; writing; formal; literary; gentle	(a measure word, for sentences or lines of verse); sentence
simp. and trad. (文句)		文	句

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): wénjù

(Zhuyin): ㄨㄣˊ ㄐㄩˋ
Cantonese (Jyutping): man⁴ geoi³
Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): bûn-kù

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)
  - Hanyu Pinyin: wénjù
  - Zhuyin: ㄨㄣˊ ㄐㄩˋ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: wúnjyù
  - Wade–Giles: wên²-chü⁴
  - Yale: wén-jyù
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: wenjiuh
  - Palladius: вэньцзюй (vɛnʹczjuj)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /wən³⁵ t͡ɕy⁵¹/
  - Homophones:
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Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
  - Jyutping: man⁴ geoi³
  - Yale: màhn geui
  - Cantonese Pinyin: man⁴ goey³
  - Guangdong Romanization: men⁴ gêu³
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /mɐn²¹ kɵy̯³³/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: bûn-kù
  - Tâi-lô: bûn-kù
  - Phofsit Daibuun: bunkux
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /bun¹³⁻²² ku²¹/
  - IPA (Xiamen): /bun²⁴⁻²² ku²¹/
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /bun²⁴⁻²² ku⁴¹/

Noun

文句

text and wording in an article

Related terms

詞句／词句 (cíjù)
話語／话语 (huàyǔ)
語句／语句 (yǔjù)

Japanese

Kanji in this term
文	句
もん Grade: 1	く Grade: 5
on'yomi

Pronunciation

(Tokyo) もんく [móꜜǹkù] (Atamadaka – [1])^[1]^[2]^[3]
IPA^(key): [mõ̞ŋkɯ̟]

Noun

文(もん)句(く) • (monku)

complaint
文句(もんく)あるか？
Monku aru ka?
Any problems?

文句(もんく)を言(い)う
monku o iu
to complain
(literally, “to speak complaints”)
phrase, words

Derived terms

文(もん)句(く)入(い)り (monkuiri)
文(もん)句(く)無(な)し (monkunashi)
謳(うた)い文(もん)句(く) (utaimonku)
売(う)り文(もん)句(く) (urimonku)
脅(おど)し文(もん)句(く) (odoshimonku)
かき文(もん)句(く) (kakimonku)
翳(かざ)し文(もん)句(く) (kazashimonku)
決(きま)り文(もん)句(く) (kimarimonku)
殺(ころ)し文(もん)句(く) (koroshimonku)
指(さし)図(ず)文(もん)句(く) (sashizumonku)
地(じ)文(もん)句(く) (jimonku)
凄(すご)文(もん)句(く) (sugomonku)
法(ほっ)華(け)文(もん)句(ぐ) (hokkemongu)
名(めい)文(もん)句(く) (meimonku)

References

^ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN
^ NHK Broadcasting Culture Research Institute, editor (1998), NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 [NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary] (in Japanese), Tokyo: NHK Publishing, Inc., →ISBN
^ Kindaichi, Kyōsuke et al., editors (1997), 新明解国語辞典 [Shin Meikai Kokugo Jiten] (in Japanese), Fifth edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN