wén
hear, smell
Phonosemantic compound. 耳 represents the meaning and 門 represents the sound.
Evolution
Oracle script
(~1250-1000 BC)
Bronze script
Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*mu[n] | mjun | wén | hear (v.) |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 52.1224% of movies
765th most common character in movies
825th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 14 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+805E |
Shuowen | “聞，知聞也。从耳，門聲。，古文从昏。” |
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