文体
ぶんたい · buntai · JLPT N2 · noun
manner
📜✍️ 文体 = 文 (writing/text) + 体 (form/body): the body or form of written text
文 means writing or sentences, 体 means form or body, so 文体 is the form of a piece of writing. Say ぶんたい (buntai) as 'boon-tie', like a bow tie on a book.
文 — pictograph of crossed lines on a chest
文 originally depicted a person with patterns or tattoos drawn on the chest, shown as crossed or interwoven lines. From this image of decorative markings, it came to mean 'pattern,' then 'writing,' 'script,' and 'literature' or 'culture.' The modern senses all trace back to the idea of meaningful marks.