wén

to hear; to smell; news

HSK 3 #825

Character data

HSK 3
Frequency 825th character
Radical ⾨ (169.6)
Strokes 9
Index # 1636
TRADITIONAL

Definitions

闻 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

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Words containing 闻

Word Meaning
anchor; newsreader
China’s press and publication authority
Newsweek magazine; also written xīn wén zhōu kān
news media
journalist
news conference
spokesman
public relations; communication management
newsgroup
freedom of the press
news service; information agency
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 items
Sankei Shimbun (Tokyo daily); Business News
Cable Network News (CNN)
seeing for yourself is better than hearing