聽聞

聽聞

See also: 听闻

Chinese

		let; allow; listen let; allow; listen; hear; obey	hear; news; celebrated hear; news; celebrated; sniff at
trad. (聽聞)		聽	聞
simp. (听闻)		听	闻

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): tīngwén

  (Zhuyin): ㄊㄧㄥ ㄨㄣˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): teng¹ man⁴, ting¹ man⁴, ting³ man⁴
• Min Nan (POJ): theng-bûn / thiaⁿ-bûn

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Pinyin: tīngwén
    • Zhuyin: ㄊㄧㄥ ㄨㄣˊ
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tingwen
    • IPA ^(key): /tʰiŋ⁵⁵ u̯ən³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: teng¹ man⁴, ting¹ man⁴, ting³ man⁴
    • Yale: tēng màhn, tīng màhn, ting màhn
    • Cantonese Pinyin: teng¹ man⁴, ting¹ man⁴, ting³ man⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: téng¹ men⁴, ting¹ men⁴, ting³ men⁴
    • IPA ^(key): /tʰɛːŋ⁵⁵ mɐn²¹/, /tʰɪŋ⁵⁵ mɐn²¹/, /tʰɪŋ³³ mɐn²¹/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: theng-bûn
    • Tâi-lô: thing-bûn
    • Phofsit Daibuun: tengbuun
    • IPA (Xiamen): /tʰiɪŋ⁴⁴⁻²² bun²⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /tʰiɪŋ³³ bun²⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /tʰiɪŋ⁴⁴⁻²² bun¹³/
  • (Hokkien: General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: thiaⁿ-bûn
    • Tâi-lô: thiann-bûn
    • Phofsit Daibuun: tvia'buun
    • IPA (Taipei): /tʰiã⁴⁴⁻³³ bun²⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /tʰiã⁴⁴⁻³³ bun²³/

Verb

聽聞

1. (literary) to hear about

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 聽說 (“to hear it said that”) [map]
Variety	Location	Words edit
Classical Chinese		聽聞
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		聽聞, 據說
Mandarin	Beijing	聽說
	Taiwan	聽說
Cantonese	Guangzhou	聽講, 聽聞, 聽聞話
	Hong Kong	聽講, 聽聞, 聽聞話
	Taishan	聽聞講
Hakka	Miaoli (N. Sixian)	聽講
	Liudui (S. Sixian)	聽講
	Hsinchu (Hailu)	聽講
	Dongshi (Dabu)	聽講
	Hsinchu (Raoping)	聽講
	Yunlin (Zhao'an)	聽講
Min Nan	Xiamen	聽講, 據講
	Quanzhou	聽說
	Zhangzhou	聽講, 據講
	Taipei	聽講
	Kaohsiung	聽講
	Philippines (Manila)	聽說
Wu	Shanghai	聽講
	Wenzhou	聽講

Noun

聽聞

1. (literary) news that one has heard

Derived terms

聳人聽聞／耸人听闻

駭人聽聞／骇人听闻 (hàiréntīngwén)