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Mythic Mandarin

闻 (wén): meaning and stroke order

闻 (wén) means to hear, news, well-known, famous, reputation, fame, to smell, to sniff at, surname Wen.

闻

Simplified
闻
Traditional
聞
Pinyin
wén

Stroke order of 闻

闻

  • Wén surname Wen
  • wén to hear; news
  • 9 strokes
  • Traditional form: 聞

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 闻

  1. wén Traditional 聞
    • to hear
    • news
    • well-known
    • famous
    • reputation
    • fame
    • to smell
    • to sniff at
  2. Wén Traditional 聞
    • surname Wen

Radical and structure

闻
Radical 门 (Kangxi radical 169) in its simplified form · 9 strokes · built from 门 and 耳

Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan database. Structure: the shapes a character is written with (BabelStone IDS), not necessarily parts that carry meaning or sound.

Words with 闻

闻 in our stories

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  • 官员说：“你杀了人以后，虽然把镰刀上的血洗干净了，可是血的腥味还在。眼睛看不见，苍蝇却闻得到。”

    guānyuán shuō nǐ shā le rén yǐhòu suīrán bǎ liándāo shàng de xuè xǐ gānjìng le kěshì xuè de xīngwèi hái zài yǎnjing kàn bú jiàn cāngying què wén de dào

    The official said: "After you killed him you washed the blood off the sickle, but the smell of blood is still there. Eyes can't see it, but flies can smell it."

    From the story The flies that solved the case HSK 7–9 · Level 9

Stories using 闻

Dictionary data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Stroke data: Hanzi Writer data, derived from Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License). Animation: Hanzi Writer (MIT licence). Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan (Unicode License v3).