正文 (zhèng wén) — main body of a text (as opposed to foreword, notes, or appendix); text proper; content (as opposed to commentary or translation); standard form of a Chinese character (vs. variant forms)
Definition
Literary/studied noun. In a book it means the main text (vs. preface, notes, or appendix); in a dictionary it means the standard form of a character (vs. variants).
noun
main body of a text (as opposed to foreword, notes, or appendix)text propercontent (as opposed to commentary or translation)standard form of a Chinese character (vs. variant forms)
Easily confused
Examples
- 正文。Zhè běn shū de fù lù bǐ zhèng wén hái cháng.The appendix of this book is even longer than the main text.
- 正文。Zhù shì bù fen yīng dāng yǔ zhèng wén fēn kāi pái bǎn.The notes section should be typeset separately from the main text.
- 正文。Zhè bù zì diǎn de zhèng wén shōu lù le suǒ yǒu cháng yòng zì de zhèng tǐ.The main entries of this dictionary include the standard forms of all commonly used characters.
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