- 象形文字 xiàngxíngwénzì hieroglyphstylized pictures representing words, especially those used in ancient Egyptian or Mayan writing
- 文字处理 wénzìchǔlǐ word processing
- 文字学 wénzìxué philologyphilology; the study of the origin, structure, and development of writing systems
- 文字狱 wénzìyù literary inquisitionofficial persecution of intellectuals or writers for their written work
- 文字改革 wénzìgǎigé script reformreform of the writing system
- 拼音文字 pīnyīnwénzì phonetic scriptA writing system in which characters or symbols represent the sounds of a language rather than concepts or morphemes.
- 楔形文字 xiēxíngwénzì cuneiformcuneiform (Babylonian script)
- 表意文字 biǎoyìwénzì ideographa character or symbol that represents an idea or concept directly rather than a specific sound
- 死文字 sǐwénzì dead languagea language that is no longer spoken as a native tongue by any community
- 韩文字母 Hánwénzìmǔ hangulHangul, the Korean phonetic alphabet or letters.
- 中日韩统一表意文字 Zhōng Rì Hántǒngyībiǎoyìwénzì CJK unified ideographsA common character set shared by Chinese, Japanese, and Korean scripts as defined in the Unicode and ISO/IEC 10646 standards.
- 颜文字 yánwénzì kaomojiJapanese-style emoticon, e.g. (⇀‸↼‶)
- 古文字学 gǔwénzìxué paleography
- 头文字 tóuwénzì initialthe initial or first letter of a word, typically in a Latin-based script
- 拉丁文字 Lādīngwénzì Latin alphabetthe Latin alphabet or script used for writing many languages
- 文字学家 wénzìxuéjiā philologistexpert on writing systems
- 文字档 wénzìdàng text filea computer file that contains only text
- 浅层文字 qiǎncéngwénzì shallow orthographyshallow orthography (a writing system governed by simple rules mapping letters to sounds)
- 甲骨文字 jiǎgǔwénzì oracle scriptThe earliest known form of Chinese writing, typically incised on turtle shells or animal bones during the Shang Dynasty.
- 纯文字 chúnwénzì text-onlytext-only (webpage, slide etc)
- 绘文字 huìwénzì emoji
