IDENTITY
闻wénto hear; news
HSK 3Top 350
CORE MEANING
to hear; news
- Part of speech
- verb
- Register
- neutral
Senses
- 1.to hear; newsHSK3
FORM & BREAKDOWN
- Radical
- 门door radical (mén)
- strokes
- 9
- Structure
- enclosed compound
- IDS sequence
- ⿵门耳
- door
- ear
- part of the structure
USAGE
Common words
新闻xīnwénnews
闻名wénmíngfamous
Graded examples
我每天看新闻。Wǒ měitiān kàn xīnwén.HSK3
I watch the news every day.
RELATIONS
Lookalike — don’t mix up
POEM LINES WITH THIS CHARACTER
LEARNING
Memory aid
An ear (耳) at the door (门) — hearing what passes by, news. (From 聞.)
- HSK version
- 3.0
- Frequency rank
- #350
- Memory aid
- memory-aid
TRUST & SOURCES
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- AI-assisted editorial review
- Last reviewed
- 2026-08-15
Sources
- CC-CEDICT 2026-01-01
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