闻
Meaning
- to hear
- news
- well-known
Example sentence
那不好闻。
That smells bad.
The character 闻
闻 is 耳, an ear, inside 门, a gate: hearing at the door. That sense survives in 新闻, the news — what has been heard — while the everyday verb has drifted to smelling, 闻一闻.