闻
Tap the pinyin to hear it
to hear; news; well-known; famous; reputation; fame; to smell; to sniff at
- HSK 3.0
- Level 2
- Old HSK
- Level 3
- Strokes
- 9
- Radical
- 門 +6
- Structure
- Top enclosure 上包
- Traditional
- 聞
- Common rank
- #626
- Unicode
- U+95FB
Sound it out + =
Formation & memory
Break the character into parts you already know.
Words with 闻
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 美国有线新闻网 | Cable Network News (CNN) | |
| 新闻发言人 | spokesman | |
| 新闻发布会 | press conference; news conference | |
| 中国新闻网 | website of China News Service 中國新聞社|中国新闻社[Zhong1 guo2 Xin1 wen2 she4] (chinanews.com) | |
| 闻名不如见面 | knowing sb by their reputation can't compare to meeting them in person (idiom) | |
| 小道新闻 | news from the grapevine | |
| 新闻工作者 | journalist | |
| 有线新闻网 | Cable Network News (CNN) | |
| 百闻不如一见 | seeing once is better than hearing a hundred times (idiom); seeing for oneself is better t… | |
| 一无所闻 | unheard of | |
| 闻风而动 | to respond instantly; to act at once on hearing the news | |
| 闻一多 | Wen Yiduo (1899-1946), poet and patriotic fighter, executed by Guomindang in Kunming | |
| 新闻学 | journalism | |
| 中国新闻社 | China News Service (CNS), a state-owned news agency in China, focused primarily on providi… | |
| 多闻天 | Vaisravana (one of the Heavenly Kings) | |
| 时有所闻 | heard from time to time; one keeps hearing that... | |
| 花边新闻 | media gossip; sensational news | |
| 头条新闻 | top news story | |
| 耳闻不如目见 | seeing sth for oneself is better than hearing about it from others | |
| 产经新闻 | Business News; Sankei Shimbun (Tokyo daily) |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 门 — compare how they read.
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 门 sound part | gate, door, entrance, opening | |
| 问 | to ask about, to inquire after | |
| 闷 | gloomy, depressed, melancholy | |
| 们 | plural marker for pronouns and some nouns | |
| 闽 | Fujian province; a river; a tribe | |
| 闰 | intercalary; extra, surplus | |
| 蔺 | hay, straw; surname | |
| 闵 | to mourn, to grieve; to incite, to urge on | |
| 扪 | to stoke, to pat; to grope, to feel | |
| 訚 | respectful; to speak gently | |
| 钔 | mendelevium |