Conjugation
Tap for 聞く (listen; ask)
Tap for 聞こえる (be audible)
- 新聞 — newspaper
- 聞き手 — listener
- 見聞 — experience, knowledge
- 聴聞 — hearing (e.g. trial)
- 伝聞 — hearsay, second-hand information
Compound - tap to expand
- 聞き取る — catch; make out (a sound or words)
- 聞き返す — ask again; ask to repeat
- 聞き入る — listen attentively; be absorbed in listening
- 聞き逃す — miss hearing; fail to catch
- 聞き分ける — distinguish by listening
- 聞き出す — draw out information
- 聞き流す — listen without paying attention
- 聞き覚える — learn by hearing
- 聞き慣れる — get used to hearing
- 聞き入れる — listen to and accept (opinions, advice)
The kanji 聞 combines the radical 門 (gate) with 耳 (ear), symbolizing the act of hearing through a gate — or receiving information from the outside. It represents listening, asking, and perceiving.
