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シブン
Meanings
Noun
1. dead letter
2. meaningless writing
Alt. forms
死し文ぶん
シブン
Pitch accent
シ
ブン
Composed of
death; (an) out; death penalty (by strangulation or decapitation; most severe of the five ritsuryō punishments)
sentence; composition; text; the literary arts (as opposed to the military arts); academia; statement
Used in vocabulary (1 in total)
becoming a dead letter; becoming meaningless (of a statute, law, etc.)