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


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