Text

"Text" in Japanese

テキスト

tekisuto

(a written passage)

メッセージ

messēji

(a brief written message transmitted between mobile phones)

伝言

dengon

(a brief written message transmitted between mobile phones)

bun

(a written passage)

本文

honmon

(a written passage)

短信

tanshin

(a brief written message transmitted between mobile phones)

記事

kiji

(a written passage)

メッセージを送る

messēji o okuru

(to send a text message to)

Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.