HSK 6 · Ideas

见闻 jiànwén “what one sees and hears” in Chinese

Traditional 見聞

What 见闻 means

  1. what one sees and hears
  2. experience
  3. knowledge
  4. what one has seen and heard
  5. one’s experience

How to say 见闻

  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale见jiàn4th tone, falling
  • Pitch chart of the second tone: rises from mid to high, 3 to 5 on the five-level scale闻wén2nd tone, rising

见闻 in a sentence

  1. 他给我们讲了很多旅行见闻。

    Tā gěi wǒmen jiǎng le hěn duō lǚxíng jiànwén.

    He told us lots about what he saw on his travels.

    Sentence by WillyChina

  2. 读书可以增长见闻。

    Dúshū kěyǐ zēngzhǎng jiànwén.

    Reading broadens your knowledge.

    Sentence by WillyChina

How 见闻 is built

Each colour is one part of the character. Parts repeat across thousands of characters, so learning them makes new words easier. See all 214 in our radicals chart.

The character 见 (jiàn) with each of its parts in a different colour
见jiànto see
  • 冂down box · jiōng
  • 儿legs · ér

Memory aidSimplified from 見: a big eye 目 on top of a person 儿: to see.

The character 闻 (wén) with each of its parts in a different colour
闻wénto hear
  • 门gate · ménSound part
  • 耳ear · ěrMeaning part

耳 hints at the meaning (ear); 门 (mén) hints at the sound. Compare it with wén.

How to write 见闻

见 4 strokes · 闻 9 strokes

Watch the order, then press Try writing it and draw each stroke in the grid. Each stroke is checked as you go.

见闻 (jiànwén) stroke order chart: each stroke of the characters in the order you write them
Stroke order chart for 见闻 (jiànwén). Red marks the next stroke, so you can copy it onto paper one step at a time.

Words related to 见闻

Words with 见

看见kànjiàn · to see再见zàijiàn · goodbye听见tīngjiàn · to hear见jiàn · to see见面jiànmiàn · meet/see somebody见到jiàndào · to see不见bújiàn · to be missing遇见yùjiàn · to meet (by chance)常见chángjiàn · common意见yìjiàn · idea

Words with 闻

新闻xīnwén · news闻wén · to smell喜闻乐见xǐwénlèjiàn · popular

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环节huánjié · link画蛇添足huàshétiānzú · to spoil something by adding the unnecessary (lit. drawing legs on a snake)活力huólì · vitality见解jiànjiě · view见义勇为jiànyìyǒngwéi · to act bravely for a just cause焦点jiāodiǎn · focus级别jíbié · level结局jiéjú · ending

FAQs

见闻 (jiànwén) means “what one sees and hears” or “experience”. It is an HSK 6 word.
Say it jiànwén: jiàn with a 4th tone, then wén with a 2nd tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
In Traditional characters, used in Taiwan and Hong Kong, 见闻 is written 見聞. The pronunciation is the same.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type jianwen with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 见闻 from the suggestions. Typing jianwen into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
见闻 is an HSK 6 word in the HSK 2.0 word lists.

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Sources: meaning and pinyin checked by a native Mandarin teacher against the official HSK lists. Extra meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Example sentences written by WillyChina. Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.