Word Meaning 文房四宝

ぶんぼうしほう bumboushihou

文房四宝 is read as ぶんぼうしほう (bumboushihou) and means the four tools of writing (brush, ink, inkstone and paper).

Meaning

English

the four tools of writing (brush, ink, inkstone and paper)

Reading

Kana

ぶんぼうしほう

Romaji

bumboushihou

Writing Variants

文房四寶 ぶんぼうしほう bumboushihou

Stroke Sequence

4 Characters • 25 Total Strokes

Study Signals and Categories

JLPT N1 Jōyō Upper Grade Kanken 3級 Rank 63342 Priority J

Related Vocabulary

Max. 12

文房具

ぶんぼうぐ

stationery

文房

ぶんぼう

study

文房具店

ぶんぼうぐてん

stationery shop

文房具屋

ぶんぼうぐや

stationery shop

四房

しぶさ

four tassels hung above the ring

四文字熟語

よんもじじゅくご

four-character compound word (usu. idiomatic)

四大文法

よんだいぶんぽう

the four great Japanese grammar texts (Yamada, Matsushita, Hashimoto and Tokieda)

四文字言葉

よんもじことば

four-letter word (esp. in English)

四大文明

よんだいぶんめい

the four great civilizations of the world (China, Babylon, India and Egypt; as put forward by Chinese scholar Liang Qichao in 1900)

七宝文

しっぽうもん

shippō pattern (of overlapping circles)

世界四大文明

せかいよんだいぶんめい

the four great civilizations of the world (China, Babylon, India, and Egypt; as put forward by Chinese scholar Liang Qichao in 1900)

文献

ぶんけん

literature