wen-yen
文彦,文燕,文渊,文远
Definitions
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- : the formal, literary variety of written Chinese, as used in classical literature.
Examples
The amount of vanished bitcoins was 650,000 BTC (or 24.7 billion yen).
The cops say Kakehi gained several hundred million yen in inheritance from the deaths over the years.
From an old cardboard box, Li Wen drew a clear glass bottle filled with a dark brown liquid.
The ministry pours an estimated 700 million yen (6.8 million dollars) into whale research per year.
And Melinda May (played by Ming-Na Wen, the best-known actor besides Gregg) was all poker face.
At any rate, he will find no spirit of this description in what Cobbett satirically termed “the Wen.”
Long-yen is somewhat smaller, but is also white and tender, though the taste is rather watery.
Shrewsbury was one of the gayest of those many provincial capitals “out of which the great wen of London has sucked all the life.”
Set down, Sir, ve make no extra charge for settin' down, as the king remarked wen he blowed up his ministers.'
Though not without fame in the field, Colonel Wen's main claim to honour lay in the high degrees he had taken in the examinations.