文章|ぶんしょうbunshou[1]atamadaka (head-high)

1. nounwriting; composition; essay; article; passage; prose; (writing) style
   彼かれの文章ぶんしょうはとても主観的しゅかんてきだ。↗

   His writing is very subjective.
2. nounsentence
   次つぎの文章ぶんしょうを日本語にほんごに直なおしなさい。↗

   Put the following sentences into Japanese.

• Synonym作文さくぶんNeutralNeutral: a composition, especially one for school; can also suggest hollow, formulaic writing with little real content.
• Synonym文ぶんWrittenWritten and old-fashioned: letters or writings; rarely used in modern Japanese.
• Synonym綴り方つづりかたWrittenWritten register: the old name for elementary-school composition lessons, and also spelling; today 「作文」 is the usual word.
• Synonym書き物かきものNeutralNeutral and broad: anything written down or the act of writing itself; a loose, general term compared with 文章.
• RelatedレポートNeutralNeutral loanword for reports and school term papers, as in 「レポートを提出する」; more specific than the general 文章.
• Related文書ぶんしょWrittenWritten/formal: official documents such as 「公文書」; stresses the record-keeping function rather than prose as such.
• Related著作ちょさくWrittenFormal: writing books or the books written, as in 「著作権」; centers on the work itself rather than general prose.
• Related著述ちょじゅつWrittenFormal: authoring books, as in 「著述業」; stresses the activity of writing rather than the finished work.
• Related文ふみWrittenWritten and old-fashioned: letters or writings; rarely used in modern Japanese.
• RelatedテキストNeutralNeutral loanword for a text or a textbook, as in 「テキストファイル」; 「文章」 is the general word for a piece of writing.
• Related報告書ほうこくしょWrittenFormal: a document compiling report findings, as in 「調査報告書」; a specific document type, not writing in general.
• Related調書ちょうしょWrittenFormal legal term: records of police or court investigations, as in 「供述調書」; far narrower than 文章.
• Related著ちょWrittenFormal; mostly a suffix marking authorship, as in 「〜著」; on its own it means a written work.

「文章」 is the default word for a piece of writing. Say 「作文」 for school compositions, 「レポート」 or 「報告書」 for reports, 「文書」 for official documents, 「著作」 for authored books, and 「テキスト」 for text or textbooks. 「文」 is an old-fashioned word for letters or writings, 「調書」 a legal term, and 「綴り方」 has largely given way to 「作文」.

Usage comparisons are AI-assisted and cross-checked by multiple models; for study reference only

1. 内容ないようがまとまっていて完結かんけつしている言語げんご表現ひょうげん。
2. いくつかの文ぶんを用もちいて、思想しそうや感情かんじょうを表現ひょうげんしたもの。
3. 散文さんぶん。