I like listening to music.
聞
hear, ask, listen
Kanji
Grade
Grade 2
Strokes
14 strokes
Radical
耳部
On'yomi (Chinese Reading)
ブン, モン
Kun'yomi (Japanese Reading)
きく, きこえる
Nanori (Name Reading)
か, ひろ
Common Readings
ブン, モン, き…く, き…こえる
Example sentences
I have never heard such a story.
I can hear birds singing from outside.
I can hear voices from the next room.
He told me an interesting story.
The mother repeatedly told her child not to play in the street.
Every morning, my father reads the newspaper while eating breakfast.
There was big news on the front page of this morning's newspaper.
Extract information from the culprit.
The noise was so bad that I couldn't catch what he was saying.
Example Vocabulary
聞く
to listen, to hear, to ask
聞こえる
to be heard; to be audible
聞かす
to let someone hear; to tell
言い聞かせる
to tell; to explain; to admonish
新聞
newspaper
聞き出す
to get information out of someone; to find out by asking
聞き取る
to catch (someone's words); to understand (by hearing)
聞き返す
to ask back; to ask again; to listen again
言うことを聞く
to listen; to obey
聞き覚え
familiarity from having heard before; hearing and remembering
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