To provide a -conjugated compound which improves carrier mobility and the like, when used as an organic semiconductor material for organic thin film devices, and in which a hydrocarbon aromatic group is bound to a fluorine-containing aromatic group.

The fluorine-containing aromatic compound represented by formula (1) [wherein, ArF is a perfluoro aromatic group (one or more fluorine atoms in the perfluoro aromatic group may be replaced by one or more perfluoroalkyl groups); n is an integer of 1 to 4; Q is an n-valent aromatic group (wherein one or more hydrogen atoms in the aromatic group may be replaced by one or more 1-8C alkyl groups or 1-8C fluorine-containing alkyl groups) obtained by removing n hydrogen atoms from a structure represented by formula (2); (p) is an integer of 0 to 4].