wén

(ancient form of 聞) to hear

Evolution

䎽 Oracle script (~1250-1000 BC)

Oracle script

(~1250-1000 BC)
䎽 Bronze script Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)

Bronze script

Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)
䎽 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
䎽 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
Definitions

 

wén

(ancient form of ) to hear, to learn, to convey, to smell, to hear of

Miscellaneous

Strokes

14

Unicode

U+43BD

Shuowen

“聞,知聞也。从耳,門聲。,古文从昏。”


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