wén
hear, smell
Phonosemantic compound. 耳 represents the meaning and 门 represents the sound. Simplified form of 聞.
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)Traditional script
ModernSimplified script
ModernDefinitions
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