Kanji1 / 14
聞 kanji
hear, ask, listen
- JLPT level
- N5 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N5 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 14
- School grade
- Grade 2 (elementary school)
On readings
ブンモン
Kun readings
きくきこえる
Words with 聞
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —競馬新聞racing form; racing (news)paper
- —新聞配達(newspaper) carrier; newspaper (delivery) boy (girl); new
- —新聞発表(issuing) a press release
- —博聞強記being widely read and having a highly retentive memory
- —ごろ新聞racketeering newspaper; journal that demands money in return for favourable articles
- —異聞奇譚strange stories and curious tales
- —新聞学問knowledge gained (information acquired) from newspapers
- —新聞辞令appointment or dismissal conjecturally reported in the media (esp. when the conjecture turned out to be wrong); announcement of an appointment that turns out to be mere press speculation
- —政界余聞tidbits of political gossip
- —浅学寡聞shallow learning and limited information; being ignorant and badly informed
- —外字新聞foreign-language newspaper
- —新聞売りnewspaper-seller; newsboy; newspaper vendor
- —電子新聞electronic newspaper
- —新聞受けnewspaper slot; newspaper box
- —有力新聞leading newspaper; prestigious newspaper
- —新聞紙上the press; (in the) newspapers
- —新聞報道newspaper report; press reporting
- —新聞売店newsstand; newspaper kiosk; newspaper stand
- —錦絵新聞nishiki-e shinbun; type of woodblock-printed newspaper popular in the early Meiji period
- —学級新聞(school) class newsletter