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I know that this kanji is associated with writing and text, and can mean
"sentence." When using it to mean "sentence", is it only a written sentence? I
can't find any examples that unambiguously demonstrate that it can be a spoken
sentence as well.
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Does 文 refer only to written sentences, or can it be used for spoken sentences as well?
文 refers to a sentence, regardless of whether it's written or spoken. I find
no significant discrepancy in usage between Japanese '文' and English
'sentence' here.

For example you can say something like 命令文のイントネーション (intonation of an
imperative sentence), which unequivocally refers to a spoken sentence.
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