听
2 readings · tap one to hear it
to listen to; to hear; to heed; to obey; a can (loanword from English "tin"); classifier for canned beverages; to let be; to allow (Taiwan pr. [ting4]); (literary) to administer; to deal with (Taiwan pr. [ting4])
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- Level 1
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- 7
- Radical
- 口 +4
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- Traditional
- 听
- Common rank
- #587
- Unicode
- U+542C
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Words with 听
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| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 好听 | pleasant to hear | |
| 听见 | to hear | |
| 听到 | to hear | |
| 听写 | (of a pupil) to write down (in a dictation exercise); dictation; (music) to transcribe by … | |
| 言者无意，听者有心 | to take a casual remark to heart (idiom) | |
| 公听会 | public hearing | |
| 听天安命 | to accept one's situation as dictated by heaven (idiom) | |
| 听力理解 | listening comprehension | |
| 尽人事，听天命 | (idiom) to do one's best and leave the rest to fate; to do everything within one's power, … | |
| 眼观四面，耳听八方 | lit. the eyes observe all sides and the ears listen in all directions (idiom); fig. to be … | |
| 听不见 | not be able to hear | |
| 眼观四处，耳听八方 | see 眼觀四面，耳聽八方|眼观四面，耳听八方[yan3 guan1 si4 mian4 , er3 ting1 ba1 fang1] | |
| 不听命 | to disobey | |
| 听小骨 | ossicles (of the middle ear); three ossicles, acting as levers to amplify sound, namely: s… | |
| 眼见为实，耳听为虚 | see 耳聽為虛，眼見為實|耳听为虚，眼见为实[er3 ting1 wei2 xu1 , yan3 jian4 wei2 shi2] | |
| 耳听为虚，眼见为实 | (idiom) what one hears may be unreliable, but what one sees is true; seeing is believing | |
| 中听 | pleasant to hear (i.e. agreeable news); to one's liking; music to one's ears; Taiwan pr. [… | |
| 听头 | a can (loanword from English "tin") | |
| 听起来 | to sound like | |
| 听之任之 | (idiom) to take a laissez-faire attitude; to turn a blind eye (towards sth undesirable) |