wén

to hear; to smell; news

Character data

Radical ⽿ (128.8)
Strokes 14
SIMPLIFIED

Definitions

聞 wén
  1. 1. to hear
  2. 2. to smell
  3. 3. news
  4. 4. reputation
  5. 5. fame
  6. 6. famous
  7. 7. well-known
  8. 8. to sniff at
  9. 9. surname Wen

Stroke order

聞 stroke order diagram

Words containing 聞

Word Meaning
public relations; communication management
newsgroup
news agency
freedom of the press
news service; information agency
journalist
Newsweek magazine; also written xīn wén zhōu kān
Nikkei Shimbun, Japanese equivalent of Financial Times
one keeps hearing that...; heard from time to time
unprecedented; never before in the whole of history (idiom)
Cable Network News (CNN)
Asahi Shimbun (Japanese newspaper)
to correct an error very quickly (idiom)
sex scandal
headline news; title story
Mainichi Shimbun, a Japanese daily newspaper
to pass into oblivion
news tidbits; strange and interesting item; oddity
news items
Sankei Shimbun (Tokyo daily); Business News
seeing is believing
sex scandal
to turn a deaf ear to (idiom); to pretend not to hear
Cable Network News (CNN)
to hear about; to hear of