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
Statistics
HSK level 2
Appears in 52.1224% of movies
765th most common character in movies
825th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 9 |
Traditional | |
Unicode | U+95FB |
Sources
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