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to hear (sth said) / one hears (that) / hearsay / listening and speaking
HSK 2
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *听* | 听* | *听
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])
HSK 1
(of a pupil) to write down (in a dictation exercise); dictation / (music) to transcribe by ear
HSK 1
to hear
HSK 1
audience / listeners
HSK 3
to hear
HSK 1
hearing / listening ability
HSK 3
to attend a lecture / to listen to a talk
HSK 2
to hear (news); to listen to
HSK 6
(idiom) to submit to the will of heaven; to resign oneself to fate; to trust to luck
listening, speaking, reading and writing (language skills)
unable to make sense of what one is hearing
to listen and obey / to comply with / to heed / to hearken
HSK 7-9
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *听* | 听* | *听
smile (archaic)
fed up of hearing
to do what one is told / obedient
HSK 7-9
to allow (sb to do as he pleases)
listener / member of audience
to sound (old, foreign, exciting, right etc) / to ring (true) / to sound as if (i.e. to give the listener an impression) / to hear from somewhere
to understand (by hearing) / to catch (what sb says)
to listen to a performance of pinghua storytelling 評話|评话 / to listen to an audiobook
to obey an order / to take orders / to accept a state of affairs
to heed advice; to listen to counsel
to attend a class / to go to a lecture
to let things take their course / to take things as they come
listener (of a radio program etc)
sense of hearing / auditory
to listen to information / to get the news / to believe what one hears
to attend a meeting (and hear what is discussed)
to allow sb to do sth at his convenience
can't hear
not be able to hear
lit. on hearing wind, to say rain / to agree uncritically with whatever people say / to parrot other people's words / to chime in with others
(legislative) hearing
to hear clearly
to attend an opera / to see an opera
to sound like
hear what he says and observe what he does (idiom, from Analects); judge a person not by his words, but by his actions
to listen / to hear what sb says / news one has heard
to take heed of idle chatter (idiom)
to understand (on hearing) / to catch (what is spoken)
to let (sth happen) / to allow (sb to do sth) / to submit to / to yield
(mahjong) to be one tile away from completing a hand / (sports) to be on the verge of winning
to mishear
a can (loanword from English "tin")
lit. to believe in the rain on hearing the wind (idiom) / to believe rumors / to be credulous
listening comprehension
hearing impairment
to wait for (orders, a decision, a judgment)
ossicles (of the middle ear) / three ossicles, acting as levers to amplify sound, namely: stapes or stirrup bone 鐙骨|镫骨, incus or anvil bone 砧骨, malleus or hammer bone 錘骨|锤骨
to obey / to allow
not to listen / to be deaf to
to attend court / to take part in a trial
to be able to hear; can hear
to hear but not react (idiom); to turn a deaf ear / to ignore deliberately
stethoscope
to hear litigation (in a law court) / to hear a case
(idiom) to take a laissez-faire attitude; to turn a blind eye (towards sth undesirable)
to sound (difficult, worthwhile etc) / to seem
to eavesdrop outside bridal bedchamber (folk custom)
to eavesdrop outside bridal bedchamber (folk custom)
hear what he says and observe what he does (idiom, from Analects); judge a person not by his words, but by his actions
to accept one's situation as dictated by heaven (idiom)
audibility threshold
to mishear / to hear wrongly
to understand the unspoken implications (idiom)
chain of ossicles (in the middle ear)
telephone receiver / headphone; earphone; earpiece / stethoscope
hearing (law)
ossicles (in the middle ear) / also written 聽小骨|听小骨
to eavesdrop / to listen in secret to sb's conversations
to hold audience / to advise on state affairs / to administer state affairs / audience hall / to listen in
listening to the words of a wise man can be superior to studying ten years of books (proverb)
to judge (i.e. to hear and pass judgment in a law court) / to hear and decide
erhua variant of 聽牆根|听墙根


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