ブン, モン, き.く, き.こえる
hear, ask, listen

This kanji has 14 strokes: 8 in the "gate" radical (もん) and 6 other strokes.

Sample compounds (34) :


  1. きく
    to hear, to listen, to ask
  2. かせる
    きかせる
    (vt) to read to, to sing for, to inform, to tell

  3. かぶん
    enquiring beforehand

  4. てんぶん
    emperor's knowledge

  5. ききただす
    to draw (information from)

  6. ひゃくぶん
    hearing a hundred times
  7. かせる
    もうしきかせる
    to tell, to talk to

  8. ききだす
    to get information out of a person, to begin listening

  9. みもん
    having not yet heard

  10. たぶん
    informing
  11. せる
    ききあわせる
    to make inquiries, to refer to
  12. れる
    ききいれる
    to grant (a wish), to accede, to comply with

  13. ききわけ
    (a-no) easily taught, obedient
  14. ける
    ききわける
    to recognize (identify) by sound

  15. きょうぶん
    bad news

  16. じょうぶん
    an imperial hearing

  17. またきき
    hearsay

  18. がいぶん
    reputation, respectability, honour
  19. ける
    ききとどける
    to grant
  20. てる
    ききすてる
    to ignore, to overlook

  21. しんぶん
    newspaper

  22. もれきく
    to overhear
  23. らす
    ききもらす
    to fail to hear, to miss

  24. いぶん
    strange tale, another story, variant (reading), strange report or tale

  25. ききただす
    to ascertain, to confirm, to verify, to make sure of

  26. ききとる
    to catch (a person's words), to follow, to understand

  27. えんぶん
    love affair, romance, ones love story

  28. けんぶん
    (vs) information, observation
  29. える
    ききおぼえる
    to be familiar, to learn by ear, to pick up knowledge
  30. かす
    いいきかす
    to tell someone to do something, to warm, to persuade, to instruct

  31. ごぶん
    misunderstanding, misinformation
  32. かす
    よみきかす
    to read to (for) someone

  33. ききこむ
    to get information, to find out, to get wind of

  34. しゅうぶん
    scandal
Kanji Character : 聞
Kuten Encoding : 4225
SJIS Encoding : 4a39
Unicode Encoding : 805e
Old Nelson Index : 4959
Radical Number : 169
Frequency Ranking : 247
Gakken Index : 262
Grade Level : 2
Halpern Index : 3326
Heisig Index : 1626
Henshall Index : 200
New Nelson Index : 4732
O'Neil Index : 2244
Stroke Count : 14
Spahn & Hadamitzky Kanji Dictionary Index : 8e6.1
Spahn & Hadamitzky Radical Strokes : 8
Spahn & Hadamitzky Other Strokes : 6
Spahn & Hadamitzky Character ID : e
Spahn & Hadamitzky kanji Number : 1
Spahn & Hadamitzky Kanji & Kana Index : 64
SKIP Code : 3-8-6
De Roo Code : 3854
Four Corner Code : 7712.1
Korean reading : mun
Pinyin reading : wen4
Morohashi Index String : 29104
Morohashi Volume and Page String : 9.0215
Morohashi Index Number : 29104
Morohashi Page : 215
Morohashi Volume : 9
Cross Index Codes
  1. DR3853
Dictionary Codes
  1. R3854
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