Vocabulary What does 散文 (さんぶん, sanbun) mean? 散文 (さんぶん, sanbun) means prose. Quick factsReadingさんぶんRomajisanbunPart of speechnoun 散文さんぶんsanbunprose1noun proseKanji in this word散scatter, disperse; dissipate文writing, sentence, literature