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紋もん
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Meanings
Noun
1. (family) crest; coat of arms
2. pattern; figure
3. playing card suit (in karuta)
Other spellings
文もん
Kanji used
紋crest (often of a family)
Kanji in other spellings
文written sentence
Pitch accent
もん
Used in vocabulary
紋もん切きり型がた
formulaic; stereotyped; hackneyed
No-adjective
三さん文もん
paltry amount of money; cheapness; worthlessness; three one-mon coins
Noun
紋もん付つき
clothing (e.g. kimono) decorated with one's family crest
Noun
文もん無なし
penniless; broke
No-adjective
三みつ紋もん
triple family crest
Noun
紋もん羽は二ぶた重え
crest-decorated habutae (silk fabric used as a cloth for lining high-quality kimono); figured habutae
Noun
縫ぬい紋もん
embroidered crest
Noun
紋もん織おり
figured textiles
Noun
無む知ち文もん盲もう
ignorance and illiteracy
Noun
唐から草くさ文もん
arabesque; scrollwork
Noun
日本にほん文もん徳とく天皇てんのう実じつ録ろく
Nihon Montoku Tennō Jitsuroku (fifth of the six classical Japanese history texts)
Noun
文もん徳とく実じつ録ろく
Montoku Jitsuroku (fifth of the six classical Japanese history texts)
Noun
Examples1
I have difficulty understanding abstract modern art, especially Mondrian.