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聞

JLPT N5 SL2 14 strokes Frequency: #319

Meanings

Hear, Ask, Listen

Radicals

耳

Decomposition

⿵門耳

Etymology

Pictophonetic: ear

Writing Practice

Stroke 0 / 14

Stroke Order

1 vertical bottom-right-to-top-left

2 corner bottom-right-to-top-left

3 horizontal bottom-to-top

4 horizontal left-to-right

5 vertical right-to-left

6 hook right-to-left

7 horizontal bottom-right-to-top-left

8 horizontal bottom-right-to-top-left

9 horizontal bottom-right-to-top-left

10 vertical top-to-bottom

11 horizontal bottom-to-top

12 horizontal bottom-to-top

13 rising bottom-to-top

14 vertical bottom-right-to-top-left

On'yomi (Chinese reading)

ブン bun

モン mon

Kun'yomi (Japanese reading)

き ki

Words Using This Kanji

270 words total

Other (19 words)

leading newspaper

the press

newspaper report

disreputable

smelling incense

smelling incense

strange tale

being able to hear everything (esp. when one was not intended to)

tea tasting

newsstand

to listen in

familiar

mishearing

to mishear

newspaper studies

seeing and hearing

asking would be rude

話し上手は聞き上手はなしじょうずはききじょうず

good talkers make good listeners

耳が聞こえないみみがきこえない

to be deaf

き (1 words)

聞こえよがしきこえよがし

bad-mouthing someone so as to be deliberately overheard

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