重文

chóngwén
noun

Meanings

  1. 1 repetitious passage (in a text)
  2. 2 variant form of a Chinese character
  3. 3 duplicate text

Examples

“Shuōwén Jiězì” zhōng shōulù le dàliàng chóngwén.
The Shuowen Jiezi dictionary includes many variant character forms.
Jiàoduì shí yào shānchú chóngwén.
When proofreading, duplicate passages should be removed.

Tips

usage
A philology term. In classical scholarship 重文 specifically refers to alternate written forms of the same character listed in lexicons like 《说文解字》. Read here as chóng ('again/repeated'), not zhòng ('heavy').
mistakes
Don't confuse with 重文 (zhòngwén, 'to value literature') as in the four-character phrase 重文 ('value letters, slight arms') — same characters, different reading and meaning.

Stroke Order

zhòng
wén