文房具

Taken apart

1. 文房

   ぶんぼう

   a study, an office

2. +

3. 具

   ぐ

   instrument, tool; means; ingredient

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Written with 文房具

In a sentence

• 私(わたし)たちは文房具(ぶんぼうぐ)類(るい)を大量(たいりょう)に買(か)う。

  We buy stationery in bulk.

  Tatoeba #165164, translation #249342

• 彼(かれ)は学校(がっこう)の売店(ばいてん)で文房具(ぶんぼうぐ)を買(か)った。

  He bought some stationery at the school store.

  Tatoeba #108872, translation #294817

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What Wiktionary says

Quoted line by line from Wiktionary's Etymology section for this reading, taken from one dated dump so it can't change underneath us. Nothing below is paraphrased.

• “Compound of 文房 (bunbō, “a study, an office”) + 具 (-gu, “instrument, tool; means; ingredient”).”

Source: Wiktionary: 文房具 (dump of 2026-09-02), available under CC BY-SA 4.0. Reading, meaning and part of speech from JMdict, and kanji readings from KANJIDIC2 (EDRDG).

What the labels mean

漢語 Sino-Japanese

Words built from Chinese-derived morphemes — borrowed from Chinese or coined in Japan out of Chinese parts — read with on'yomi.

Compound

Two or more words or stems joined into one.