聞

• Sensory perception: To hear or to smell (general perception via the air).
• Information/Cognition: To receive news, tidings, or reports.
• Reputation: To be famous or renowned (to be "heard" by others).
• Nominal use: News, reports, or rumors.

• Transitive/Intransitive verb: Perceiving a stimulus or receiving information.
• Causative/Passive sense: To make something known or to become known.
• Noun: Used as a standalone object meaning news or tidings.

• Regarding the acquisition of knowledge, this glyph specifically denotes oral transmission or hearsay, as distinguished from textual study.

// Tang-period reading: //miən (Fanqie: 無分 / 亡運).

• Simplified variant: 闻.

• In constructions involving the "making known" of information, use syntax to determine whether the subject is the active reporter or the person whose reputation is being spread.