闻
wén HSK2

hear, smell

闻 聞 wén
to smell verb
to smell; to sniff; to distinguish odors with the nose

让我闻闻你的口气。

ràng wǒ wén wén nǐ de kǒu​qì.

Let me smell your breath.

在现代医学实验技术成熟前，医生曾通过闻病人的呼吸来诊断一些疾病。

zài xiàn​dài yī​xué shí​yàn jì​shù chéng​shú qián, yī​shēng céng tōng​guò wén bìng​rén de hū​xī lái zhěn​duàn yī​xiē jí​bìng.

Before modern medical lab techniques became available, doctors diagnosed some diseases by smelling a patient’s breath.

news noun
(bound form) things heard; news; stories; information
fame adjectiveverb
(bound form) reputation; fame; to be well-known or famous
to hear adjectiveverb
(literary) to hear; to catch the sound of something
Wen
the surname Wen
knowledge
(bound form) knowledge; experience; what one has seen and heard
to spread
(literary) to spread; to become known to others; to reach (of sound, news, or fame)

Cross-References

Has variant

Frequency
Character
Written text
825th most common 218.4 per million
Movie subtitles
766th most common 166.2 per million appears in 52% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
69.7 per million appears in 22% of films
Written text
33.1 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 3
HSK 3.0
Level 2
Traditional
聞
Strokes
9
Unicode
U+95FB

Sources
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)