| 難文 | difficult sentence | 
| 天文学的 | astronomical | 
| 天文航法 | celestial navigation | 
| 異文化 | foreign culture, foreign cultures | 
| 好色文学 | erotic or pornographic literature (Edo period) | 
| 白文 | unpunctuated Chinese texts | 
| 斯文 | this academic subject or field of study, Confucian studies | 
| 軟文学 | love story, erotic literature | 
| 芸文 | art and literature | 
| 短文 | short piece of writing (e.g. passage, article, composition) | 
うたい文句 謳い文句 | catchphrase, promotional line | 
柔らかい文章 軟らかい文章 | informal style | 
| 允文允武 | being versed in the literary and military arts | 
| 英文科 | department of English literature | 
| 渦状文 | spiral pattern | 
| 経文の義を説く | to explain the meaning of a sutra | 
癖のある文章 癖の有る文章 | mannered style (of writing), idiosyncratic style | 
| 絢文 | colorful pattern, colourful pattern | 
| 甲骨文 | ancient inscriptions of Chinese characters on oracle bones and tortoise shells | 
| 作文の題 | subject of a composition | 
| 雑文家 | miscellanist, miscellaneous writer | 
| 女流文学者 | female writer, woman writer | 
| 注文通り | as ordered | 
拙い文章 つたない文章 | poor writing, shoddy writing | 
| 難解文の釈 | elucidation of a difficult passage | 
| 二成文系 | binary system | 
| 判決文 | judgment paper, judgement paper | 
| 復文 | reply letter, retranslation (into the original language) | 
| 仏文学 | French literature | 
| 文苑 | anthology, literary world, collection of literary masterpieces | 
| 文化事業部 | Cultural Affairs Department | 
| 文学の味 | the pleasures of literature | 
| 文語調 | flavor of literary style, flavour of literary style | 
| 文士の卵 | hatching writer | 
| 文士連 | the literary set | 
| 文博 | doctor of literature | 
| 文明館 | the Bunmeikan Theater | 
| 文明が進むに連れて | with the advance of civilization (civilisation) | 
| 文を組み立てる | to construct a sentence | 
| 文を以て立つ | to live by the pen | 
| 文字合わせ錠 | combination lock | 
やさしい文章 易しい文章 | easy (simple) writing | 
| 右文 | respect for literary culture | 
| 略文 | abridged sentence | 
| 和文英訳 | Japanese-English translation | 
| 核文法 | core grammar | 
| 機能単一化文法 | functional unification grammar, FUG | 
| 句構造文法 | phrase structure grammar, PSG | 
| 語彙機能文法 | lexical-functional grammar, LFG | 
| 主辞駆動句構造文法 | head-driven phrase structure grammar, HPSG | 
| 挿入文 | parenthetic sentence | 
| 体系文法 | systemic grammar | 
| 範疇文法 | categorical grammar | 
| 袋小路文 | easily misunderstood sentence, garden-path sentence, cul-de-sac sentence |