wenyan
English
Etymology
From Chinese 文言.
Noun
wenyan (uncountable)
- Classical Chinese
- 2004, Michael Lackner; Natascha Vittinghoff, Mapping Meanings: The Field of New Learning in Late Qing China, BRILL, →ISBN, page 280:
- The first baihua-journals until about 1901 contained mainly articles and news, which had been originally written in wenyan and were now translated into the vernacular language.