散文 Simplified/traditional word 散文 English definition sǎn wén prose essay HSK level HSK 6 Characters 散 (sàn): to scatter; to break up (a meeting etc); to disperse; to disseminate; to dispel; (coll.) to sack; 文 (wén): language; culture; writing; formal; literary; gentle; (old) classifier for coins; Kangxi radical 118;