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'''Classical Chinese''' or '''''wen yan''''' (文言 wen2 yan2wényán, literal meaning: "literary language") is a style of writing the

[[Chinese language]] which uses alternate sets of [[chinese character|characters]] and grammar which resembles Chinese as it was written historically. It was used for almost all formal correspondence before the [[20th century]], not only in [[China]] but also in [[Korea]] and [[Japan]].