Learn Chinese Characters — Hear; News
The Chinese characters 闻 meaning is hear; news.
In this ideograph, “ear” (耳) becomes “hear” when placed at the door (门). By extension 闻 also means news, for the ear is the door of knowledge or information. But not all news obtained by the ear is reliable, as the saying goes: “What the ear hears is not equal to what the eye sees.”
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