文語

Reading

Kana: ぶんご

Romaji: bungo

Definitions

noun

1

written language; literary language

2

formal (or archaic) written style based on Heian-period Japanese

Kanji

文

Readings: ブン、 モン、 ふみ、 あや

Meanings: sentence, literature, style, art, decoration, figures, plan, literary radical (no. 67)

語

Readings: ゴ、 かた.る、 かた.らう

Meanings: word, speech, language