| 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 |