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(of a pupil) to write down (in a dictation exercise); dictation / (music) to transcribe by ear
HSK 1
ear / CL: 隻|只, 個|个, 對|对 / handle (on a cup)
HSK 5
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  *捂* | 捂* | *捂
to enclose / to cover with the hand (one's eyes, nose or ears) / to cover up (an affair) / contrary / to contradict
HSK 7-9
to lose the way / lost / labyrinth / labyrinthus vestibularis (of the inner ear)
HSK 7-9
to whisper to one another's ear
HSK 7-9
ear-piercing
HSK 7-9
fenestra vestibuli (of inner ear)
the seven apertures of the human head: 2 eyes, 2 ears, 2 nostrils, 1 mouth
to bend an ear (to) / to listen
ear pick
loyal advice jars on the ears (idiom)
whispering in sb's ear
lit. like thunder piercing the ear / a well-known reputation (idiom)
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  *秀* | 秀* | *秀
(bound form) refined; elegant; graceful; beautiful / (bound form) superior; excellent / (loanword) show / (literary) to grow; to bloom; (of grain crops) to produce ears
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  *耳* | 耳* | *耳
ear / handle (archaeology) / and that is all (Classical Chinese)
(idiom) young and inexperienced; wet behind the ears
five sense organs of TCM (nose, eyes, lips, tongue, ears 鼻目口舌耳) / facial features
inner ear
ear pick
to have water get in (one's ear, shoes etc) / to get flooded / inflow of water
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  *穗* | 穗* | *穗
ear of grain / fringe / tassel
lit. to treat (what sb says) as wind past your ear / fig. to completely disregard
to erect (a tent etc) / to prick up (one's ears) / to raise (one's eyebrows) / to stick up (one's thumb) / to turn up (one's collar) / (of a bird) to puff up (one's feathers)
the seven apertures of the human head: 2 eyes, 2 ears, 2 nostrils, 1 mouth
across one's whole face / (smiling) from ear to ear
outer ear
middle ear
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  *屎* | 屎* | *屎
feces; excrement; a stool / (bound form) secretion (of the ear, eye etc)
ossicles (in the middle ear) / also written 聽小骨|听小骨
speech that grates on the ear (idiom); bitter truths / home truths (that one does not want to hear)
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)
ear piercing hole; earring hole
stick / club / cudgel / maize (corn) / ear of maize / corncob / (derog.) Korean
wood ear; jelly ear (edible fungus) / CL:
(of sound) to never stop / to fall incessantly on the ear / to linger on
pleasant to hear (i.e. agreeable news) / to one's liking / music to one's ears / Taiwan pr. [zhong4 ting1]
eardrum / tympanum (of the middle ear) / tympanic membrane
ear ornament (earring, eardrop, stud etc)
base of the ear / ear / (Buddhism) sense of hearing
grinning from ear to ear (idiom) / beaming with happiness
eyes and ears / sb's attention or notice / information / knowledge / spies
to tweak one's ears and scratch one's cheeks (as an expression of anxiety, delight, frustration etc) (idiom)
outer ear; auricle; pinna
(idiom) (of sb unfairly accused) to have all one's protestations fall on deaf ears; to be unable to convince sb of one's innocence
in-ear monitor (abbr. for 耳機返聽系統|耳机返听系统) (contrasted with 地返)
white fungus (Tremella fuciformis) / silver tree-ear fungus
(anatomy) ear canal
outer ear / auricle / pinna
lit. to cover one's ears whilst stealing a bell / to deceive oneself / to bury one's head in the sand (idiom)
to block one's ears and not listen (idiom); to turn a deaf ear
rice ear
to prick up one's ear / to listen attentively
to turn a deaf ear to (idiom); to pretend not to hear
to listen with respectful attention / (a polite request to sb to speak) / we are all ears
(in the game of Go) to make an "eye" / to serve as eyes and ears (i.e. go and seek out information); to be a scout
with one's own ears
pleasing to the ear
(idiom) terribly busy / up to one's ears in work
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  *衄* | 衄* | *衄
to bleed from the nose (or from the ears, gums etc) / fig. to be defeated
smiling wholeheartedly (idiom); beaming from ear to ear
ear of grain / gerbe (used on coats of arms)
ear-splitting (idiom); deafening
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  *瑱* | 瑱* | *瑱
(literary) jade pendants attached to an official hat and hanging beside each ear, symbolizing refusal to listen to malicious talk / (literary) to fill up
the walls have ears (idiom)
ear-splitting
sharp ears and keen eyes (idiom) / keen and alert / perceptive
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  *耷* | 耷* | *耷
(literary) big ears / (bound form) to droop
to approach sb's ear (to whisper)
ear (of corn or sorghum etc) / bunch (of grapes) / infructescence
lit. smell of breast milk not yet dried (idiom) / fig. immature and inexperienced; still wet behind the ears
chain of ossicles (in the middle ear)
incus or anvil bone of middle ear, passing sound vibration from malleus hammer bone to stapes stirrup bone
eardrum / tympanum (of the middle ear) / tympanic membrane
lit. pale-faced scholar (idiom); young and inexperienced person without practical experience / still wet behind the ears
words still ringing in one's ears (idiom)
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  *聃* | 聃* | *聃
ears without rim
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  *馘* | 馘* | *馘
(literary) to cut off the left ear of a slain enemy / the severed ear of a slain enemy
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  *琠* | 琠* | *琠
gem used as ear plug / jade earrings
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  *擗* | 擗* | *擗
(literary) to beat the breast / to break off; to snap off (a branch, an ear of corn etc)
tympanic cavity (of the middle ear)
see the opportunity and act (idiom); to act according to circumstances / to play it by ear / to use one's discretion
lit. to play the lute to a cow (idiom) / fig. offering a treat to an unappreciative audience / to cast pearls before swine / caviar to the general / to preach to deaf ears / to talk over sb's head
to shut one's eyes and stop one's ears / out of touch with reality / to bury one's head in the sand
malleus or hammer bone of middle ear
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  *甋* | 甋* | *甋
a jar without ears
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  *刵* | 刵* | *刵
cutting off the ears as punishment
unpleasant to hear / grates on the ear (of home truths)
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  *鳆* | 鳆* | *鳆
Haliotis gigantea / sea ear
auriculotherapy (ear acupuncture)
lit. as the autumn breeze passes the ear (idiom); not in the least concerned
to have the ears of grain come up
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  *斝* | 斝* | *斝
small jade cup with ears
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  *聝* | 聝* | *聝
cut off the left ear of the slain
raucous / ear-splitting
to hear but not react (idiom); to turn a deaf ear / to ignore deliberately
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  *咡* | 咡* | *咡
space between mouth and ears
to cover (typically by placing a hand over sb's mouth, nose or ears etc)
porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome (PRRS) / blue-ear swine fever
to fold the corner of a page / to dog-ear
stapes or stirrup bone of middle ear, passing sound vibration to the inner ear

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