文学 (wén xué)

Character breakdown

• 文 (Wén) · 4 strokes

  Pictograph of a man with writing (possibly a tattoo) on his chest. In later scripts the writing was abbreviated to a dot or omitted altogether.

• 学 (xué) · 8 strokes

  Simplified form of 學. Depicts two hands (𦥑) teaching a child (子) under a roof (宀). 爻 represents the sound.