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听

tīng

HSK 1 Character Traditional 聽

What 听 means

1. to listen to; to hear
2. to heed; to obey
3. a can (loanword from English "tin")
4. classifier for canned beverages
5. to let be; to allow (Taiwan pr. tìng)
6. literaryto administer; to deal with (Taiwan pr. tìng)

Other readings

听 is 多音字 — it is read more than one way, and the reading changes the meaning.

• yǐnsmile (archaic)

Example sentences

• 听！
  Listen!
• 听着！
  Listen!
• 听着。
  Listen.
• 请听！
  Please listen!
• 爱听？
  Love listening?
• 听这个！
  Listen to this!

Words starting with 听

• 听到tīng dàoto hear
• 听说tīng shuōto hear (sth said); one hears (that); hearsay
• 听见tīng jiànto hear
• 听力tīng lìhearing; listening ability
• 听众tīng zhòngaudience; listeners
• 听话tīng huàto do what one is told; obedient
• 听懂tīng dǒngto understand (on hearing); to catch (what is spoken)
• 听起来tīng qi laito sound like
• 听课tīng kèto attend a class; to go to a lecture
• 听取tīng qǔto hear (news); to listen to
• 听从tīng cóngto listen and obey; to comply with; to heed
• 听写tīng xiě(of a pupil) to write down (in a dictation exercise); dictation…
• 听来tīng láito sound (old, foreign, exciting, right etc); to ring (true)…
• 听觉tīng juésense of hearing; auditory
• 听讲tīng jiǎngto attend a lecture; to listen to a talk
• 听清tīng qīngto hear clearly
• 听筒tīng tǒngtelephone receiver; headphone; earphone; earpiece; stethoscope
• 听证会tīng zhèng huì(legislative) hearing
• 听者tīng zhělistener; member of audience
• 听错tīng cuòto mishear
• 听闻tīng wénto listen; to hear what sb says; news one has heard
• 听天由命tīng tiān yóu mìng(idiom) to submit to the will of heaven; to resign oneself to fate; to trust to luck
• 听任tīng rènto let (sth happen); to allow (sb to do sth); to submit to
• 听信tīng xìnto listen to information; to get the news; to believe what one hears

Words containing 听

• 打听dǎ tingto ask about; to make some inquiries; to ask around
• 倾听qīng tīngto listen attentively
• 好听hǎo tīngpleasant to hear
• 聆听líng tīngto listen (respectfully)
• 收听shōu tīngto listen to (a radio broadcast)
• 难听nán tīngunpleasant to hear; coarse; vulgar
• 视听shì tīngwhat people see and hear; public perception; audiovisual
• 动听dòng tīngpleasant to listen to
• 接听jiē tīngto answer the phone
• 试听shì tīngaudition; to give sb an audition; to check by listening
• 旁听páng tīngto sit in on (proceedings); to be present at a meeting as an observer; to audit (a class)
• 偷听tōu tīngto eavesdrop; to monitor (secretly)
• 中听zhōng tīngpleasant to hear (i.e. agreeable news); to one's liking; music to one's ears
• 监听jiān tīngto monitor; to listen in; to eavesdrop
• 骇人听闻hài rén tīng wénshocking; horrifying; atrocious
• 探听tàn tīngto make inquiries; to try to find out; to pry
• 窃听qiè tīngto eavesdrop; to wiretap
• 危言耸听wēi yán sǒng tīngfrightening words to scare people (idiom); alarmist talk; reds under the beds
• 道听途说dào tīng tú shuōgossip; hearsay; rumor
• 耸人听闻sǒng rén tīng wénto sensationalize (idiom); deliberate exaggeration to scare people
• 窃听器qiè tīng qìtapping device; bug
• 洗耳恭听xǐ ěr gōng tīngto listen with respectful attention; (a polite request to sb to speak); we are all ears
• 言听计从yán tīng jì cóngto see, hear and obey (idiom); to take advice; to take sb at his word
• 谛听dì tīngto listen carefully

Characters that look like 听

Easy to confuse on sight. Compare them side by side once and the pair stops costing you.

• 析xīto separate; to divide; to analyze
• 吸xīto breathe; to suck in; to absorb
• 秆gǎnstalks of grain
• 昕xīndawn
• 杵chǔpestle; to poke
• 狎xiá(bound form; literary) to take liberties with sb or sth; to treat frivolously

Sounds the same

Read tīng, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 厅(reception) hall; living room; office
• 汀sandbar; shoal; sandbank
• 烃hydrocarbon
• 桯bed side stand
• 綎silk braided cord
• 聼variant of 听