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charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *聞* | 聞* | *聞
to hear / news / well-known / famous / reputation / fame / to smell / to sniff at
HSK 2
HSK 2
scandal
HSK 7-9
rumor
HSK 7-9
shocking / horrifying / atrocious / terrible
HSK 7-9
ignorant and inexperienced / ill-informed and narrow-minded
HSK 7-9
sex scandal
HSK 7-9
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *聞* | 聞* | *聞
surname Wen
famous / of good reputation
Asahi Shimbun (Japanese newspaper)
important news story / headline
to listen / to hear what sb says / news one has heard
unpleasant smell / stink
what one has seen and heard / knowledge / one's experience
unheard of / an extremely rare and unprecedented event
funny news item / interesting anecdote
what one hears and sees (idiom)
(idiom) unknown; unrenowned
to block one's ears and not listen (idiom); to turn a deaf ear
to turn a deaf ear to (idiom); to pretend not to hear
to hear suddenly / to learn of sth unexpectedly
to sensationalize (idiom); deliberate exaggeration to scare people
media gossip / sensational news
to stink to high heaven / (fig.) disgraceful; disgusting
so I have heard (idiom) / the beginning clause of Buddha's quotations as recorded by his disciple, Ananda (Buddhism)
(Buddhism) disciple
sex scandal
obituary
Xuwen county in Zhanjiang 湛江, Guangdong
bizarre anecdote; extraordinary piece of news
to hear of / to hear about
(idiom) unheard-of; unprecedented
to hear but not react (idiom); to turn a deaf ear / to ignore deliberately
Business News / Sankei Shimbun (Tokyo daily)
to pass into oblivion
anecdote / apocryphal story
(idiom) dreadful to hear
news items
oddity / news tidbits / strange and interesting item
to have a wide knowledge of many subjects (idiom)
to learn sth through hearsay; to get wind of sth
never before in the whole of history (idiom) / unprecedented / also written 曠古未有|旷古未有
variant of 軼聞|轶闻
wide and knowledgeable / well-informed and experienced
it is said; it is alleged; it is reported
Hong Kong Economic Journal
top news story
Yomiuri Shimbun (Japanese newspaper)
to be known to everyone
Nikkei Shimbun, Japanese equivalent of Financial Times
Rodong Sinmun (Workers' news), the official newspaper of the North Korean WPK's Central Committee
matters (concerning a prominent family etc) intended to be kept private
heard from time to time / one keeps hearing that...
unheard of
knowledgeable / erudite (idiom)
news from the grapevine
heard / what one hears
headline news / title story
Mainichi Shimbun, a Japanese daily newspaper
outdated news / old anecdote; stories passed on from former times
there is no-one who doesn't know that
scandal / gossip
anecdote (about historical person) / lost or apocryphal story


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