洋文

Reading

Kana: ようぶん

Romaji: youbun

Definitions

noun

1

Western word or sentence

2

word created by translating components of a Western word

Kanji

洋

Reading: ヨウ

Meanings: ocean, western style

文

Readings: ブン、 モン、 ふみ、 あや

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

Example Sentence

ギリシャは西洋(せいよう)文明(ぶんめい)の揺籃(ようらん)の地(ち)であった。

➥Greece was the cradle of western civilization.