surname Wen

= + : Willy Walrus (w) found a trap door (门) in the encampment's kitchen ((e)n2) and after sniffing (闻) at it he finds that behind it there is a secret chamber of the Illuminati. He puts his ear (耳) to the door and tries to listen to any interesting news (闻).
to hear / news / well-known / famous / reputation / fame / to smell / to sniff at

= + : Willy Walrus (w) found a trap door (门) in the encampment's kitchen ((e)n2) and after sniffing (闻) at it he finds that behind it there is a secret chamber of the Illuminati. He puts his ear (耳) to the door and tries to listen to any interesting news (闻).

聞 character breakdown

ear / handle (archaeology) / and that is all (Classical Chinese)

It ist what it looks like: an ear.
surname Men
gate / door / CL:扇[shan4] / gateway / doorway / CL:個|个[ge4] / opening / valve / switch / way to do something / knack / family / house / (religious) sect / school (of thought) / class / category / phylum or division (taxonomy) / classifier for large guns / classifier for lessons, subjects, branches of technology / (suffix) -gate (i.e. scandal; derived from Watergate)

Mahatma Gandhi wants his revenge on the Chinese emperor! Like a spider he sits in the upper left corner of the encampment's kitchen, ready to strike with the trap door he installed in the floor.

Characters with 聞 as component

聞 is not used as a component in another character.

Words with 聞

to hear of / to hear about
to turn a deaf ear to (idiom); to pretend not to hear
seeing once is better than hearing a hundred times (idiom); seeing for oneself is better than hearing from many others / seeing is believing
matters (concerning a prominent family etc) intended to be kept private
oddity / news tidbits / strange and interesting item
Mainichi Shimbun, a Japanese daily newspaper
heard from time to time / one keeps hearing that...
Business News / Sankei Shimbun (Tokyo daily)
seeing sth for oneself is better than hearing about it from others
never before in the whole of history (idiom) / unprecedented / also written 曠古未有|旷古未有
Asahi Shimbun (Japanese newspaper)
lit. heard in the morning and changed by the evening / to correct an error very quickly (idiom)

Sentences with 聞

聞 currently does not appear in any sentence.