聞

See also 眞, and 闻

Translingual

shinjitai	聞
simplified	闻
traditional	聞

This character has a slight difference between Chinese and in Japanese:

• in Chinese: 聞
• in Japanese: 聞

Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): phonetic 門 + semantic 耳 (“ear”)

Han character

聞 (radical 128 耳+8, 14 strokes, cangjie input 日弓尸十 (ANSJ), four-corner 7740₁, composition ⿴門耳)

1. hear
2. smell
3. make known
4. news

References

• KangXi: page 968, character 11
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 29104
• Dae Jaweon: page 1418, character 9
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 7, page 4294, character 12
• Unihan data for U+805E

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Cantonese

Hanzi

聞 (simplified 闻, Yale man4)

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Japanese

Kanji

聞 (grade 2 “Kyōiku” kanji)

1. hear

Readings

• On: ぶん (bun), もん (mon)
• Kun: きく (kiku), きこえる (kikoeru), きこえ (kikoe)

Compounds

• 聞こえる
• 聞く

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Korean

Hanja

聞
Eumhun:

• Sound (hangeul): 문 (revised: mun, McCune-Reischauer: mun, Yale: mun)

• Name (hangeul): 들을 문()

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Mandarin

Hanzi

聞 (simplified 闻, pinyin wén (wen2), Wade-Giles wen²)

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Vietnamese

Han character

聞 (văn)