闻聞 in English

Stroke order

How it used to be written

These are the forms of 聞, the traditional character: 闻 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.

• Oracle bone script 商
• Clerical script 東漢
• See all 22 forms

Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).

Examples

• 丑闻让他付出了失去声誉的代价。

  That scandal cost him his reputation.

• 传闻被爆是真的。

  The rumor turned out true.

• 你们有闻到烟味儿吗？

  Do you smell smoke?

• 你听到新闻了吗？

  Did you hear the news?

• 我闻到瓦斯味。

  I smell gas.

• 房里闻起来有股烟味。

  The room smelled of tobacco.

All example sentences with 闻