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charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *聞* | 聞* | *聞
to hear / news / well-known / famous / reputation / fame / to smell / to sniff at
HSK 2
(idiom) unknown; unrenowned
HSK 7-9
rumor
HSK 7-9
shocking / horrifying / atrocious / terrible
HSK 7-9
scandal
HSK 7-9
ignorant and inexperienced / ill-informed and narrow-minded
HSK 7-9
it is said; it is alleged; it is reported
unheard of
to pass into oblivion
(idiom) unheard-of; unprecedented
Asahi Shimbun (Japanese newspaper)
(idiom) dreadful to hear
famous / of good reputation
Rodong Sinmun (Workers' news), the official newspaper of the North Korean WPK's Central Committee
important news story / headline
funny news item / interesting anecdote
to listen / to hear what sb says / news one has heard
Mainichi Shimbun, a Japanese daily newspaper
to hear of / to hear about
outdated news / old anecdote; stories passed on from former times
news from the grapevine
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *聞* | 聞* | *聞
surname Wen
to hear suddenly / to learn of sth unexpectedly
Hong Kong Economic Journal
unheard of / an extremely rare and unprecedented event
to have a wide knowledge of many subjects (idiom)
top news story
what one hears and sees (idiom)
sex scandal
obituary
never before in the whole of history (idiom) / unprecedented / also written 曠古未有|旷古未有
scandal / gossip
Nikkei Shimbun, Japanese equivalent of Financial Times
bizarre anecdote; extraordinary piece of news
heard / what one hears
Yomiuri Shimbun (Japanese newspaper)
unpleasant smell / stink
to hear but not react (idiom); to turn a deaf ear / to ignore deliberately
to be known to everyone
to block one's ears and not listen (idiom); to turn a deaf ear
what one has seen and heard / knowledge / one's experience
headline news / title story
(idiom) to stink to high heaven / (fig.) (idiom) disgraceful; disgusting
matters (concerning a prominent family etc) intended to be kept private
Business News / Sankei Shimbun (Tokyo daily)
to learn sth through hearsay; to get wind of sth
to turn a deaf ear to (idiom); to pretend not to hear
heard from time to time / one keeps hearing that...
wide and knowledgeable / well-informed and experienced
anecdote (about historical person) / lost or apocryphal story
anecdote / apocryphal story
so I have heard (idiom) / the beginning clause of Buddha's quotations as recorded by his disciple, Ananda (Buddhism)
news items
(Buddhism) disciple
media gossip / sensational news
oddity / news tidbits / strange and interesting item
to sensationalize (idiom); deliberate exaggeration to scare people
sex scandal
HSK 7-9
knowledgeable / erudite (idiom)
variant of 軼聞|轶闻


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