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surname Wen

to hear / news / well-known / famous / reputation / fame / to smell / to sniff at

ear / handle (archaeology) / and that is all (Classical Chinese)

surname Men

gate / door / CL:扇[shan4] / gateway / doorway / CL:個|个[ge4] / opening / valve / switch / way to do something / knack / family / house / (religious) sect / school (of thought) / class / category / phylum or division (taxonomy) / classifier for large guns / classifier for lessons, subjects, branches of technology / (suffix) -gate (i.e. scandal; derived from Watergate)

sex scandal

to hear of / to hear about

to turn a deaf ear to (idiom); to pretend not to hear

seeing once is better than hearing a hundred times (idiom); seeing for oneself is better than hearing from many others / seeing is believing

oddity / news tidbits / strange and interesting item

matters (concerning a prominent family etc) intended to be kept private

to witness personally

Wen Yiduo (1899-1946), poet and patriotic fighter, executed by Guomindang in Kunming

lit. to hear one and know ten (idiom); fig. explain one thing and (he) understands everything / a word to the wise

to smell of sth / to smell like sth

famous person

to identify by smell / to detect a scent / to sniff out

knowing sb by their reputation can't compare to meeting them in person (idiom)

headline news / title story

Mainichi Shimbun, a Japanese daily newspaper

to pass into oblivion

news items

Business News / Sankei Shimbun (Tokyo daily)

Cable Network News (CNN)

seeing sth for oneself is better than hearing about it from others