Chinese symbol for “paperwork”
文牍
wén dú
Traditional: 文牘
paperwork; official documents and letters; (old) secretary
The closest CC-CEDICT match for paperwork is 文牍 (wén dú), defined as: paperwork; official documents and letters; (old) secretary.
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Other Chinese words for “paperwork”
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 文书处理 (文書處理) | wén shū chǔ lǐ | paperwork; clerical tasks; (Tw) word processing |
| 文案 | wén àn | (newspapers etc) copy; copywriter |
Related words
Other words that share a character with 文牍.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 文化 | wén huà | culture; civilization |
| 文章 | wén zhāng | article; essay |
| 文件 | wén jiàn | document; file |
| 文学 (文學) | wén xué | literature |
| 文明 | wén míng | civilized; civilization |
| 文字 | wén zì | character; script |
| 简牍 (簡牘) | jiǎn dú | bamboo and wooden slips (used for writing on in ancient times); letter; correspondence; book; document |
| 尺牍 (尺牘) | chǐ dú | (literary) a one-foot-long strip of wood or bamboo, used for writing in ancient times; (as a metonym) letter; written message |
See also: Japanese symbol for “paperwork”.
Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.