聞說

Chinese

		hear; news; celebrated hear; news; celebrated; sniff at	to speak; to say; persuade (politically)
trad. (聞說)		聞	說
simp. (闻说)		闻	说

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): wénshuō

  (Zhuyin): ㄨㄣˊ ㄕㄨㄛ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): man⁴ syut³

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: wénshuō
    • Zhuyin: ㄨㄣˊ ㄕㄨㄛ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: wúnshuo
    • Wade–Giles: wên²-shuo¹
    • Yale: wén-shwō
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: wenshuo
    • Palladius: вэньшо (vɛnʹšo)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /wən³⁵ ʂu̯ɔ⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: man⁴ syut³
    • Yale: màhn syut
    • Cantonese Pinyin: man⁴ syt⁸
    • Guangdong Romanization: men⁴ xud³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /mɐn²¹ syːt̚³/

Verb

聞說

1. (literary or Hong Kong) to hear it said that; to hear tell

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 聽說 (“to hear it said that”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Classical Chinese		聞道
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		聽說, 據說, 據稱, 據聞
Mandarin	Taiwan	聽說
	Jinan	聽說
	Ürümqi	聽說
	Guilin	聽講
	Liuzhou	聽聞講, 聽講
	Nanjing	聽講
	Singapore	聽說
Cantonese	Guangzhou	聽講, 聽講話, 聽聞, 聽聞講, 聞得
	Hong Kong	聽講, 聽講話, 聽聞, 聽聞話, 據講, 據聞
	Taishan	聽講, 聽聞, 聽聞講
	Singapore (Guangfu)	聽講
Hakka	Meixian	聽講
	Miaoli (N. Sixian)	聽講
	Pingtung (Neipu; S. Sixian)	聽講
	Hsinchu County (Zhudong; Hailu)	聽講
	Taichung (Dongshi; Dabu)	聽講
	Hsinchu County (Qionglin; Raoping)	聽講
	Yunlin (Lunbei; Zhao'an)	聽講
Huizhou	Jixi	聽著講
Jin	Taiyuan	聽說
Southern Min	Xiamen	聽講, 據講
	Quanzhou	聽說
	Zhangzhou	聽講, 據講
	Taipei	聽講
	Kaohsiung	聽講
	Singapore (Hokkien)	聽講
	Manila (Hokkien)	聽說
	Longyan	聽講
	Shantou	聽呾
	Singapore (Teochew)	聽呾
Southern Pinghua	Nanning (Tingzi)	聽講, 聽見講
Wu	Shanghai	聽講
	Wenzhou	聽講
Xiang	Changsha	聽講, 信講