闻
wénWén HSK2

hear, smell

闻 (聞) wén frequency
smell verb
to perceive odors via the nose; to sniff at

你闻一下，这花真香。

nǐ wén yī​xià, zhèi huā zhēn xiāng.

Smell this; the flower is very fragrant.

hear verb
to hear or listen to; news or information

百闻不如一见。

bǎi​wén​bù​rú​yī​jiàn.

Seeing once is better than hearing a hundred times.

famous verb
well-known, notable; reputation or fame

他是一个名闻中外的著名学者。

tā shì yī gè míng wén zhōng​wài de zhù​míng xué​zhě.

He is a world-renowned scholar.

闻 (聞) Wén
Wen proper name
surname Wen

闻先生正在办公室等您。

Wén xiān​sheng zhèng​zài bàn​gōng​shì děng nín.

Mr. Wen is waiting for you in the office.

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
Definitions
CC-CEDICT
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)