文 本 wén běn a text (article, script, contract etc) / version of a text (copy, translation, abridged version etc) / (computing) text 课 文 kè wén text / CL:篇[pian1] 发 短 信 fā duǎn xìn to text / to send SMS messages 案 文 àn wén text 收 发 短 信 shōu fā duǎn xìn to text / to receive and send SMS messages 语 篇 yǔ piān discourse / text 短 信 duǎn xìn text message / SMS 本 文 běn wén this text / article / the main body of a book 正 文 zhèng wén main text (as opposed to footnotes) / main body (of a book) 全 文 quán wén entire text / full text 宝 典 bǎo diǎn canonical text / treasury (i.e. book of treasured wisdom) 控 件 kòng jiàn a control (e.g. button, text box etc) (computing) 讯 息 xùn xī information / news / message / text message or SMS 原 文 yuán wén original text 启 发 qǐ fā to enlighten / to explain (a text etc) / to stimulate (a mental attitude) / enlightenment / revelation / motivation 注 释 zhù shì marginal notes / annotation / to annotate / to add comments to text 乱 码 luàn mǎ mojibake (nonsense characters displayed when software fails to render text according to its intended character encoding) 专 著 zhuān zhù monograph / specialized text 原 作 yuán zuò original works / original text / original author 古 籍 gǔ jí ancient text / antique books 译 文 yì wén translated text 文 本 框 wén běn kuàng text box (computing) 短 讯 duǎn xùn SMS / text message 上 文 shàng wén preceding part of the text 背 书 bèi shū to recite a text from memory / to learn a text by heart / to back / to endorse (a political candidate, product, check etc) / backing / endorsement 纯 文 字 chún wén zì text only (webpage) 内 经 Nèi jīng abbr. for 黃帝內經|黄帝内经[Huang2 di4 Nei4 jing1], The Yellow Emperor's Internal Canon, medical text c. 300 BC 道 德 经 Dào dé jīng the Book of Dao by Laozi or Lao-Tze, the sacred text of Daoism 拾 遗 shí yí to pocket a lost article / (fig.) to correct others' errors / to remedy omissions (in a text etc) 加 粗 jiā cū to make text bold 删 节 shān jié to abridge / to cut a text down to size for publication 要 旨 yào zhǐ the gist (of a text or argument) / the main points 白 文 bái wén the text of an annotated book / an unannotated edition of a book / intagliated characters (on a seal) 列 子 Liè zǐ Lie Zi, Daoist author, said to be early Warring States period 戰國|战国[Zhan4 guo2] / Daoist text in eight chapters, said to be by Lie Zi, probably compiled during WeiJin times 魏晉|魏晋[Wei4 Jin4] (3rd century AD) 词 话 cí huà form of writing novels that comprise lots of poetry in the body of the text, popular in the Ming Dynasty 重 典 zhòng diǎn important classic text / severe laws 圈 点 quān diǎn to mark a text with dots and circles / to punctuate 文 饰 wén shì to polish a text / rhetoric / ornate language / to use florid language to conceal errors / to gloss over 经 籍 jīng jí religious text 语 料 库 yǔ liào kù text corpus 栏 fence / railing / hurdle / column or box (of text or other data) 口 齿 生 香 kǒu chǐ shēng xiāng eloquence that generates perfume (idiom) / profound and significant text 妄 下 雌 黄 wàng xià cí huáng to alter a text indiscriminately (idiom) / to make irresponsible criticism 望 文 生 义 wàng wén shēng yì lit. view a text and interpret (idiom) / to interpret word by word without understanding the meaning / a far-fetched interpretation 镻 name of poisonous snake in ancient text 课 文 启 动 kè wén qǐ dòng text priming 文 字 档 wén zì dàng text file 全 文 检 索 quán wén jiǎn suǒ full text search 八 八 六 bā bā liù Bye bye! (in chat room and text messages) 参 校 cān jiào to proofread / to revise one or more editions of a text using an authoritative edition as a source book / to editorially revise a text 四 十 二 章 经 sì shí èr zhāng jīng The Sutra in Forty-two Sections Spoken by the Buddha, the first Chinese Buddhist text, translated in 67 AD by Kasyapa-Matanga 迦葉摩騰|迦叶摩腾[Jia1 ye4 Mo2 teng2] and Gobharana 竺法蘭|竺法兰[Zhu2 fa3 lan2] (Dharmaraksha) 宋 慈 Sòng Cí Song Ci (1186-1249), Southern Song lawyer, editor of Record of Washed Grievances 洗冤集錄|洗冤集录 / (1247), said to be the world's first legal forensic text 定 场 诗 dìng chǎng shī first soliloquy text (introducing opera character) 密 文 mì wén coded text / cypher 尉 缭 Wèi Liáo Wei Lao (c. 450 BC, dates of birth and death unknown), advisor to the first Qin emperor Qin Shihuang 秦始皇[Qin2 Shi3 huang2], possible author of the Wei Liaozi 尉繚子|尉缭子[Wei4 Liao2 zi5] text on military strategy 性 短 讯 xìng duǎn xùn sexting / sexually explicit text message 文 本 编 辑 器 wén běn biān jí qì text editor 有 声 读 物 yǒu shēng dú wù audiobook / recording of a person reading the text of a book 次 经 cì jīng non-canonical text / dubious classic text / Apocrypha 洗 冤 集 录 Xǐ yuān jí lù Record of Washed Grievances (1247) by Song Ci 宋慈, said to be the world's first legal forensic text 英 汉 对 译 Yīng Hàn duì yì English-Chinese parallel text 解 深 密 经 Jiě shēn mì jīng Sandhinir mokcana vyuha sutra, a yogic text on awareness and meditation, translated as the Wisdom of Buddha 训 民 正 音 Xùn mín Zhèng yīn Korean text HunMin JongUm promulgated by Sejong Daewang in 1418 to introduce hangeul 读 破 句 dú pò jù incorrect break in reading Chinese, dividing text into clauses at wrong point 释 经 shì jīng exegesis / explanation of classic text 集 部 jí bù non-canonical text / Chinese literary work not included in official classics / apocryphal 黄 帝 内 经 Huáng dì Nèi jīng The Yellow Emperor's Internal Canon, medical text c. 300 BC 黄 帝 八 十 一 难 经 Huáng dì Bā shí yī Nàn jīng The Yellow Emperor's Classic of Eighty-one Difficulties, medical text, c. 1st century AD 点 窜 diǎn cuàn to reword / to edit a text 商 君 书 shāng jūn shū The Book of Lord Shang, Legalist text of the 4th century BC 通 过 条 约 桉 文 adoption of the text of a treaty / adoption of a treaty 主 席 案 文 zhǔ xí àn wén chairman's text 联 机 文 字 服 务 lián jī wén zì fù wù online text service 视 察 议 定 书 联 合 草 案 文 本 shì chá yì dìng shū lián hé cǎo àn wén běn Joint Draft Text of an Inspection Protocol 转 用 或 消 除 议 定 书 联 合 草 桉 文 本 Joint Draft Text of a Conversion or Elimination Protocol 单 一 协 商 桉 文 single negotiating text 文 字 处 理 员 text processor 约 文 之 草 签 构 成 条 约 之 签 署 the initialling of a text constitutes a signature of the treaty 复 杂 文 本 布 局 fù zá wén běn bù jú complex text layout 数 据 谅 解 备 忘 录 联 合 草 桉 文 本 Joint Draft Text of a Memorandum of Understanding on data 非 正 式 综 合 协 商 桉 文 Informal Composite Negotiating Text 非 正 式 单 一 协 商 桉 文 informal single negotiating text 滚 动 桉 文 rolling text / rolling document 滚 动 文 件 rolling text / rolling document 短 信 息 服 务 Short Message Service / text messaging 作 准 文 本 authentic text 有 效 文 本 authentic text 认 证 文 本 authentic text 反 白 fǎn bái reverse type (white on black) / reversed-out (graphics) / highlighting (of selected text on a computer screen) 灵 枢 经 Líng shū jīng the Divine Pivot or Spiritual Pivot, ancient Chinese medical text 讹 误 é wù error in a text / text corruption 跋 语 bá yǔ short comment or critical appraisal added at the end of a text, on a painting etc 微 信 Wēi xìn Weixin or WeChat (mobile text and voice messaging service developed by Tencent 騰訊|腾讯[Teng2 xun4]) 二 十 四 孝 Er4 shí sì Xiào the Twenty-four Filial Exemplars, classic Confucian text on filial piety from Yuan dynasty 顶 格 dǐng gé (typesetting) to not indent / to set the text flush with the left (or top) margin 批 点 pī diǎn to add critical marks or notes to a text / (fig.) to criticize 洗 稿 xǐ gǎo to modify a text so it can be plagiarized without detection (neologism c. 2014, formed by analogy with 洗錢|洗钱[xi3 qian2], to launder money) 跑 马 灯 pǎo mǎ dēng lantern with a carousel of paper horses rotating under convection, used at Lantern Festival 元宵節|元宵节[Yuan2 xiao1 jie2] / chaser lights / self-scrolling horizontal text display, such as a news ticker 富 文 本 fù wén běn rich text (computing) 纯 文 本 chún wén běn plain text (computing)
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