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headphones / earphones / telephone receiver
HSK 4
ear / CL: 隻|只, 個|个, 對|对 / handle (on a cup)
HSK 5
flushed with anger (or excitement)
HSK 7-9
to witness personally
HSK 7-9
what's frequently heard can be repeated in detail (idiom)
HSK 7-9
a slap on the face / CL: 記|记
HSK 7-9
to whisper to one another's ear
HSK 7-9
ear-piercing
HSK 7-9
a pleasant change / a breath of fresh air / refreshing
HSK 7-9
sweet-sounding / beautiful (of sound)
HSK 7-9
sharp ears and keen eyes (idiom) / keen and alert / perceptive
earplug / earphone
(bird species of China) striated yuhina (Yuhina castaniceps)
(bird species of China) red-whiskered bulbul (Pycnonotus jocosus)
to listen attentively
Second book of Samuel
lit. the eyes observe all sides and the ears listen in all directions (idiom) / fig. to be observant and alert
Hermes, in Greek mythology, messenger of the Gods
(dialect) earpick / curette
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ear / handle (archaeology) / and that is all (Classical Chinese)
handle (on a pot)
in-ear monitor (abbr. for 耳機返聽系統|耳机返听系统) (contrasted with 地返)
tab (of a web browser)
ear pick
earpick / curette
to hear of / to hear about
Siberian cocklebur (botany)
fennec / Vulpes zerda
Turkey
protruding ears
credulous
tipsy and merry (idiom)
with one's own ears
white fungus (Tremella fuciformis) / silver tree-ear fungus
eardrum / tympanum (of the middle ear) / tympanic membrane
deaf
Nathaniel
(idiom) 60 years old
credulous
headphones
(bird species of China) silver-eared laughingthrush (Trochalopteron melanostigma)
to prick up one's ear / to listen attentively
inner ear
white fungus (Tremella fuciformis) / snow fungus
spelt (Triticum spelta) (loanword)
to approach sb's ear (to whisper)
Turkish (language)
auriculotherapy (ear acupuncture)
to remove earwax with an ear pick
(of sound) to never stop / to fall incessantly on the ear / to linger on
to bend an ear (to) / to listen
inflammation of middle ear / otitis media
lit. like thunder piercing the ear / a well-known reputation (idiom)
ear pick
eyes and ears / sb's attention or notice / information / knowledge / spies
to block one's ears and not listen (idiom); to turn a deaf ear
ear
tinnitus
lit. wind past your ear / fig. sth you don't pay much attention to / in one ear and out the other
to listen with respectful attention / (a polite request to sb to speak) / we are all ears
lit. to cover one's ears whilst stealing a bell / to deceive oneself / to bury one's head in the sand (idiom)
to slap on the face / to box sb's ears
(coll.) to whisper in sb's ear
pleasing to the ear
to pay no attention to outside matters
lit. wind past your ear / fig. sth you don't pay much attention to / in one ear and out the other
Auricularia auricula-judae, an edible fungus
Lao Zi
to be hearing impaired
middle ear
sb with preternaturally good hearing (in fiction) / fig. a well-informed person
cochlea
earwax / cerumen
(loanword) joule
outer ear / auricle / pinna
(bird species of China) shikra (Accipiter badius)
to block one's ears (not wishing to hear)
to refuse to listen
(chemistry) mole (loanword) (Tw)
to sound familiar / familiar-sounding
subauricular gland / parotid gland (salivary gland in the cheek)
earlobe
earwax
Boyle (name) / Robert Boyle (1627-91), British and Irish scientist and pioneer chemist
speech that grates on the ear (idiom); bitter truths / home truths (that one does not want to hear)
credulous
wood ear; jelly ear (edible fungus) / CL:
jug ears
credulous
ear thermometer
lit. the east wind blowing in a horse's ear (idiom) / fig. words one pays no heed to
lit. to play together ear to ear and temple to temple (idiom) / fig. (of a boy and a girl) to play together often during childhood
to fool people (idiom) / to pull the wool over people's eyes
outer ear / auricle / pinna
unpleasant to hear / grates on the ear (of home truths)
raucous / ear-splitting
earhole / ear piercing hole; earring hole
ear-splitting
credulous person / credulous

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