聞 (wén)
to smell; to hear (news)
How 聞 is written
- Strokes
- 14
- Radical
- 門 — gate
- Traditional
- 聞
- Simplified
- 闻
Common words using 聞
- 新聞 xīnwén
- news; CL:條|条[tiao2],個|个[ge4]
- 不聞不問 bùwénbùwèn
- not to hear, not to question (idiom); to show no interest in sth; uncritical
- 傳聞 chuánwén
- rumor
- 喜聞樂見 xǐwénlèjiàn
- a delight to see (idiom); an attractive spectacle
- 奇聞 qíwén
- anecdote; fantastic story
- 徐聞 xúwén
- Xuwen county in Zhanjiang 湛江[Zhan4 jiang1], Guangdong
- 所見所聞 suǒjiànsuǒwén
- what one hears and sees (idiom)
- 新聞網 xīnwénwǎng
- news agency
- 緋聞 fēiwén
- sex scandal
- 耳聞 ěrwén
- to hear of; to hear about
- 聞到 wéndào
- to smell; to sniff sth out; to perceive by smelling
- 聞名 wénmíng
- well-known; famous; renowned
聞 in a sentence
你聞聞看，這朵花好香喔！
Nǐ wénwen kàn, zhè duǒ huā hǎo xiāng ō!
“Smell this; this flower is so fragrant!”
How common is 聞?
聞 is the 823rd most frequent character in written Chinese. Characters up to this rank account for about 85.8% of all running text.
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