正文

zhèngwén

noun #43,147

Meanings

1 main text (of a book)
2 body (of a document or email)

Characters

main; principal

Examples

HSK 3

邮件的正文不要写得太长。

Yóujiàn de zhèngwén búyào xiě de tài cháng.

Don't make the body of the email too long.

HSK 7-9

这本书的正文有三百页，后面还有很多注释。

Zhè běn shū de zhèngwén yǒu sānbǎi yè, hòumian hái yǒu hěnduō zhùshì.

The main text of this book runs to three hundred pages, with many notes after it.

Tips

usage

正文 is everything except the parts around it: the 标题 'title', 序言 'preface', 注释 'notes' and the appendix. In word processing it is the 'body text' style.

Stroke Order

正 zhèng

文 wén