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聞
聞
Translingual
Shinjitai | 聞 |
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Simplified | 闻 |
Traditional | 聞 |
Stroke order | |||
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Japanese stroke order | |||
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This character has a slight difference between Chinese and in Japanese:
- in Chinese: 聞
- in Japanese: 聞
Han character
聞 (radical 128 耳+8, 14 strokes, cangjie input 日弓尸十 (ANSJ), four-corner 77401, composition ⿴門耳)
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
Chinese
trad. | 聞 | |
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simp. | 闻 |
Glyph origin
Characters in the same phonetic series (門) (Zhengzhang, 2003) | |
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Old Chinese | |
蔄 | *roːs, *mruːns |
闅 | *min, *mrɯn, *mɯn |
閩 | *mrɯn, *mɯn |
蕄 | *mɯːŋ, *mrɯːŋ |
門 | *mɯːn |
捫 | *mɯːn |
悶 | *mɯːns |
聞 | *mɯn, *mɯns |
閿 | *mɯn |
問 | *mɯns |
Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *mɯn, *mɯns) : phonetic 門 (OC *mɯːn) + semantic 耳 (“ear”). Compare 問 (OC *mɯns).
Pronunciation 1
- Mandarin
- Cantonese (Jyutping): man4
- Hakka (Sixian, PFS): vùn
- Min Nan (POJ): bûn
- Wu (Wiktionary): men (T3); ven (T3)
- Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Pinyin:
- Zhuyin: ㄨㄣˊ
- Wade-Giles: wên2
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: wen
- IPA (key): /u̯ən³⁵/
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
- Jyutping: man4
- Yale: màhn
- Cantonese Pinyin: man4
- IPA (key): /mɐn²¹/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
- Hakka
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
- Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: vùn
- Hakka Romanization System: vunˇ
- Hagfa Pinyim: vun2
- IPA: /vun¹¹/
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
- Min Nan
- (Hokkien)
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī: bûn
- Tâi-lô: bûn
- Phofsit Daibuun: buun
- IPA (Xiamen): /bun²⁴/
- IPA (Quanzhou): /bun²⁴/
- IPA (Zhangzhou): /bun¹³/
- IPA (Taipei): /bun²⁴/
- IPA (Kaohsiung): /bun²³/
- (Hokkien)
- Wu
- (Shanghainese)
- Wiktionary: men (T3); ven (T3)
- IPA (key): /məɲ²³/, /v̻əɲ²³/
- Note: 3men - colloquial; 3ven - literary.
- (Shanghainese)
Rime | |
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Character | 聞 |
Reading # | 1/2 |
Initial (聲) | 明 (4) |
Final (韻) | 文 (59) |
Tone (調) | Level (Ø) |
Openness (開合) | Closed |
Division (等) | III |
Fanqie | 無分切 |
Reconstructions | |
Zhengzhang Shangfang |
/mɨun/ |
Pan Wuyun |
/miun/ |
Shao Rongfen |
/miuən/ |
Edwin Pulleyblank |
/mun/ |
Li Rong |
/miuən/ |
Wang Li |
/mĭuən/ |
Bernard Karlgren |
/mi̯uən/ |
Expected Mandarin Reflex |
wén |
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014) | |
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Character | 聞 |
Reading # | 1/1 |
Modern Beijing (Pinyin) |
wén |
Middle Chinese |
‹ mjun › |
Old Chinese |
/*mu[n]/ |
English | hear (v.) |
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; |
Zhengzhang system (2003) | |
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Character | 聞 |
Reading # | 1/2 |
No. | 8963 |
Phonetic component |
門 |
Rime group |
文 |
Rime subdivision |
1 |
Corresponding MC rime |
文 |
Old Chinese |
/*mɯn/ |
Definitions
聞
- to hear; to listen
- to smell; to detect; to get a sniff at
- to spread; to transmit
- to be well-known; famous
- knowledge; expertise
- news; message
- A surname.
Synonyms
Dialectal synonyms of 聞 (“to smell”) | ||
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Variety | Location | Words |
Classical Chinese | 聞、嗅 | |
Formal (Written Standard Chinese) | 聞 | |
Mandarin | Beijing | 聞 |
Taiwan | 聞 | |
Tianjin | 聞 | |
Jinan | 聞 | |
Xi'an | 聞 | |
Wuhan | 聞 | |
Chengdu | 聞 | |
Yangzhou | 聞 | |
Nanjing | 聞 | |
Hefei | 聞 | |
Cantonese | Guangzhou | 聞 |
Hong Kong | 聞 | |
Taishan | 聞 | |
Yangjiang | 聞 | |
Gan | Nanchang | 嗅 |
Hakka | Meixian | 鼻 |
Xingning | 鼻 | |
Huidong (Huizhou) | 鼻 | |
Qujiang | 聞 | |
Xiaosanjiang | 鼻 | |
Changting | 鼻 | |
Pingyu | 鼻 | |
Wuping | 鼻 | |
Liancheng | 鼻 | |
Ninghua | 鼻 | |
Ruijin | 鼻 | |
Shicheng | 嗅 | |
Shangyou | 嗅 | |
Miaoli (N. Sixian) | 鼻 | |
Liudui (S. Sixian) | 鼻 | |
Hsinchu (Hailu) | 鼻 | |
Dongshi (Dabu) | 鼻 | |
Zhuolan (Raoping) | 鼻 | |
Yunlin (Zhao'an) | 鼻 | |
Jin | Taiyuan | 聞 |
Min Bei | Jian'ou | 鼻 |
Min Dong | Fuzhou | 鼻 |
Min Nan | Quanzhou | 鼻 |
Xiamen | 鼻 | |
Zhangzhou | 鼻 | |
Taipei | 鼻 | |
Kaohsiung | 鼻 | |
Chaozhou | 鼻 | |
Wu | Shanghai | 聞 |
Suzhou | 聞 | |
Wenzhou | 嗅、聽 | |
Xiang | Changsha | 聞 |
Shuangfeng | 嗅 |
Pronunciation 2
- Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Pinyin:
- Zhuyin: ㄨㄣˋ
- Wade-Giles: wên4
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: wenn
- IPA (key): /u̯ən⁵¹/
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
- Jyutping: man6
- Yale: mahn
- Cantonese Pinyin: man6
- IPA (key): /mɐn²²/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
Rime | |
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Character | 聞 |
Reading # | 2/2 |
Initial (聲) | 明 (4) |
Final (韻) | 文 (59) |
Tone (調) | Departing (H) |
Openness (開合) | Closed |
Division (等) | III |
Fanqie | 亡運切 |
Reconstructions | |
Zhengzhang Shangfang |
/mɨunH/ |
Pan Wuyun |
/miunH/ |
Shao Rongfen |
/miuənH/ |
Edwin Pulleyblank |
/munH/ |
Li Rong |
/miuənH/ |
Wang Li |
/mĭuənH/ |
Bernard Karlgren |
/mi̯uənH/ |
Expected Mandarin Reflex |
wèn |
Zhengzhang system (2003) | |
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Character | 聞 |
Reading # | 2/2 |
No. | 8968 |
Phonetic component |
門 |
Rime group |
文 |
Rime subdivision |
1 |
Corresponding MC rime |
問 |
Old Chinese |
/*mɯns/ |
Definitions
聞
Compounds
Derived terms from 聞
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Japanese
Kanji
聞
- hear
Readings
Compounds
Korean
Hanja
聞 • (mun)
Eumhun:
- Sound (hangeul): 문 (revised: mun, McCune-Reischauer: mun, Yale: mun)
- Name (hangeul): 들을 문()
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Vietnamese
Han character
聞 (văn)
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