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听说

tīng shuō

HSK 3.0 level 3 2-character word Traditional 聽說

听说 (tīng shuō) means "to hear (that), to be told". It is an HSK 3.0 level 3 word, and was not on the old six-level HSK list.

What 听说 means

1. to hear (sth said)
2. one hears (that)
3. hearsay
4. listening and speaking

The characters in 听说

• 听tīngto listen to; to hear; to heed; to obey; a can (loanword from English "tin")
• 说shuōto speak; to talk; to say; to explain; to comment; to scold; to tell off

Example sentences

• 听说你病了。
  I hear you have been sick.
• 听说你不来。
  I heard that you're not coming.
• 你可能听说过。
  You may have heard of that.
• 听说她结婚了。
  I heard from someone that she got married.
• 我听说你病了。
  I've heard you've been sick.
• 听说他去世了。
  I heard that he'd died.

Words starting with 听说

• 听说读写tīng shuō dú xiělistening, speaking, reading and writing (language skills)

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