U+805E "聞" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
聞
U+805E "聞" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character (kanji in Japanese, hanja in Korean) that primarily means "to hear," "to listen," or "to ask," and historically conveys the sense of information or news received through hearing. It is composed of the radical "耳" (ear) on the inside, suggesting auditory perception, and the outer enclosure "門" (gate), often interpreted as sounds entering through a gate. This character is widely used in East Asian languages, appearing in words like the Japanese "聞く" (kiku, to listen) and the Chinese "新聞" (xinwen, news). In Unicode, it is encoded under the CJK Unified Ideographs block, representing a core logograph with cultural and linguistic significance across several writing systems.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+805E |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| Block | CJK Unified Ideographs |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 聞 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 聞 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE8 0x81 0x9E |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x805E |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000805E |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u805e |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | BB44 |
| kCCCII | 215271 |
| kCNS1986 | 1-6A4C |
| kCNS1992 | 1-6A4C |
| kCangjie | ANSJ |
| kCantonese | man4 |
| kCihaiT | 1084.301 |
| kCowles | 2617 |
| kDaeJaweon | 1418.090 |
| kDefinition | hear; smell; make known; news |
| kEACC | 215271 |
| kFanqie | 無分 亡運 |
| kFenn | 635A |
| kFennIndex | 601.08 603.03 |
| kFourCornerCode | 7740.1 |
| kGB1 | 4637 |
| kGradeLevel | 4 |
| kGSR | 0441f |
| kHangul | 문:0E |
| kHanYu | 74294.120 |
| kHanyuPinlu | wén(133) |
| kHanyuPinyin | 74294.120:wén,wèn |
| kHKGlyph | 3249 |
| kIICore | ATJHKMP |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 1418.090 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 74294.120 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0968.110 |
| kIRG_GSource | G1-4E45 |
| kIRG_HSource | HB1-BB44 |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-4A39 |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP0-DBF0 |
| kIRG_KSource | K0-5A24 |
| kIRG_TSource | T1-6A4C |
| kIRG_VSource | V2-8F21 |
| kJapanese | ブン モン きく きこえる |
| kJoyoKanji | 2010 |
| kKoreanEducationHanja | 2007 |
| kJapaneseKun | KIKU KIKOERU KIKOE |
| kJapaneseOn | BUN MON |
| kJis0 | 4225 |
| kKangXi | 0968.110 |
| kKorean | MWUN |
| kLau | 2093 2094 |
| kMandarin | wén |
| kMatthews | 7142 |
| kMeyerWempe | 1777 |
| kMojiJoho | MJ020855 |
| kMorohashi | 29104 |
| kNelson | 4959 |
| kPhonetic | 929 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+3593+128.6.8 C+3593+169.8.6 |
| kRSUnicode | 128.8 |
| kSBGY | 109.31 395.36 |
| kSimplifiedVariant | "闻" U+95FB CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 546.11 745.15 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | wén粵man4 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 5113 |
| kTang | *miən |
| kTotalStrokes | 14 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | HJKMPT |
| kXerox | 244:260 |