聞
wén
hear; smell; make known; news
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- Radical
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- Tone
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Simplified form: 闻
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Our word list and example sentences are in simplified characters. Everything below is for 闻, the simplified form of 聞. We do not have a traditional-script corpus to draw the words from, so they are shown as they are written in simplified Chinese.
Example sentences
百闻不如一见。
Bǎi wén bù rú yī jiàn
A picture is worth a thousand words.
Shadow闻一下。
Wén yī xià
Smell it.
Shadow这是今天的新闻
Zhè shì jīn tiān de xīn wén
That's today's newspaper.
Shadow你听到新闻了吗？
Nǐ tīng dào xīn wén le ma
Did you hear the news?
Shadow
Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR), contributed by their community.
Words containing 闻
- 新闻xīn wén 1–2 news
- 闻wén 2to hear; news; well-known; famous; reputation; fame; to smell; to sniff at
- 举世闻名jǔ shì wén míng 3–4–2–2world-famous (idiom)
- 见闻jiàn wén 4–2 what one has seen and heard; knowledge; one's experience
- 喜闻乐见xǐ wén lè jiàn 3–2–4–4to love to hear and see (idiom); well received; to one's liking
- 传闻chuán wén 2–2 rumor
- 丑闻chǒu wén 3–2 scandal
- 闻名wén míng 2–2 well-known; famous; renowned; eminent
- 绯闻fēi wén 1–2 sex scandal
- 默默无闻mò mò wú wén 4–4–2–2obscure and unknown (idiom); an outsider without any reputation; a nobody; an unknown quantity
- 骇人听闻hài rén tīng wén 4–2–1–2shocking; horrifying; atrocious; terrible
- 远近闻名yuǎn jìn wén míng 3–4–2–2to be known far and wide; to be well-known