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


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