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


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