N5 Kanji Course

Teacher

Marshall

Kanji 104: 聞

Meaning:

In Japanese, 聞 means “to listen; to ask”.

How to read it:

Kunyomi	き
Onyomi	ぶん、もん

How to write it:

Origin:

You can see a man listening to something，so 聞 stands for “to listen”.
And when you listen to the answer, it means that you asked something, so 聞 also stands for “to ask”.

Note:
You can see the particle before 聞きく to judge the meaning.

For example:

彼かれに聞きいた：I asked him.

彼かれから聞きいた：I heard from him.

Development:

Vocabulary:

Level	Word	Reading	Meaning
Basic	聞く	きく	to listen; to ask
Basic	新聞	しんぶん	newspaper
Basic	聞こえる	きこえる	to be able to hear
Adv	言い聞かせる	いいきかせる	to tell
Adv	聞き取る	ききとる	to understand
Adv	聞き出す	ききだす	to ask
Adv	聞き返す	ききかえす	to ask back
Adv	聞き手	ききて	listener
H_Adv	聞き入れる	ききいれる	to listen to
H_Adv	見聞	けんぶん	observation
H_Adv	聞き流す	ききながす	to ignore
H_Adv	未聞	みもん	unheard of
S_Adv	伝聞	でんぶん	hearsay