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lit. like thunder piercing the ear / a well-known reputation (idiom)
to whisper to one another's ear
HSK 7-9
ear-piercing
HSK 7-9
Nie Er (1912-1935), musician and composer of the PRC national anthem March of the Volunteer Army 義勇軍進行曲|义勇军进行曲
outer ear
middle ear
(of sound) to never stop / to fall incessantly on the ear / to linger on
sweet-sounding / beautiful (of sound)
HSK 7-9
wood ear; jelly ear (edible fungus) / CL:
pleasing to the ear
unpleasant to hear / grates on the ear (of home truths)
bowed head and ears glued (idiom); docile and obedient / at sb's beck and call
inner ear
loyal advice jars on the ears (idiom)
flange / lug
white fungus (Tremella fuciformis) / silver tree-ear fungus
(loanword) gill (unit)
with one's own ears
cochlear implant
fat; plump; chubby
jug ears
to prick up one's ear / to listen attentively
to refuse to listen
the walls have ears (idiom)
snow fungus (Tremella fuciformis) / white fungus
white fungus (Tremella fuciformis) / snow fungus
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ear / handle (archaeology) / and that is all (Classical Chinese)
(loanword) joule
raucous / ear-splitting
sb with preternaturally good hearing (in fiction) / fig. a well-informed person
Lao Zi
Boyle (name) / Robert Boyle (1627-91), British and Irish scientist and pioneer chemist
words still ringing in one's ears (idiom)
trunnion / protrusions on either side of a cannon facilitating mounting and vertical pivot
to bend an ear (to) / to listen
lit. as the autumn breeze passes the ear (idiom); not in the least concerned
(chemistry) mole (loanword) (Tw)
ear-splitting
Robert Boyle (1627-1691), English chemist
to be the acknowledged leader (from the custom of a prince holding a plate on which lay the severed ears of a sacrificial bull at an alliance ceremony)
to intentionally reinterpret a spoken expression as if one had misheard it, for the sake of humor (often, it is a phrase in a foreign language twisted into a similar-sounding phrase in one's native language with a completely different meaning) (orthographic borrowing from Japanese 空耳 "soramimi")
to watch and listen attentively
Siberian cocklebur (botany)
bushel (eight gallons)
walls have ears
to block one's ears (not wishing to hear)
to remove earwax with an ear pick
Nathaniel
to approach sb's ear (to whisper)
Auricularia auricula-judae, an edible fungus
to remove earwax with an ear pick


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